VicForests has been banned from logging in areas of sensitive greater glider habitat in the central highlands until next year, pending the outcome of a legal challenge. The federal court on Thursday granted an injunction to conservation group Friends of the Leadbeater’s Possum to protect the mountain ash forest until 25 February, when a three-week trial on the validity of the central highlands regional forests agreement (RFA) is due to commence. Logging was due to start from Friday. The order protects four logging coupes and a roadway where Friends of the Leadbeater’s Possum allege that the Greater glider, Petauroides volans, has been seen. Greater gliders are listed as vulnerable under the federal Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act). The area is also within the habitat footprint of the critically endangered Leadbeater’s possum.