The campaign to protect the endangered greater glider has ramped up in Queensland after a conservation group reported logging only a few kilometres from a site where the species has been identified.
Volunteers from the Queensland Conservation Council documented logging in a state forest near Maryborough at the end of July which they said was less than three kilometres from where seven greater gliders had been sighted.
According to government maps, the forest was not protected habitat, the conservation council's protected areas campaigner Nicky Moffat said.
"What is happening in these logging sites is not forestry - it's vandalism," she said.
"When their habitat is logged, greater gliders die.
"Who’s to say how much longer those trees will remain standing, that are home to the iconic greater gliders we had the pleasure to see?"
The organisation is calling for protection of all state-owned land where there are known and potential greater glider habitats.
It also wants a commitment to fund new national parks and protected areas dedicated to the recovery of the species.
A government spokesperson told AAP its Sustainable Timber Industry Framework included a commitment to create a new Greater Glider Forest Park to protect ecosystems and species.
"Experts are currently identifying the highest priority greater glider habitat for protection," they said, adding specific glider protections had been in place since 2000.
The spokesperson said 20,000 hectares of state forest in southeast Queensland were being dedicated as national and conservation parks.
The conservation of greater gliders is a national concern with the species listed as endangered in 2022 - meaning it is at very high risk of becoming extinct in the wild soon.
In the past six months, some states have struggled to balance the conservation of the marsupials with the needs of industrial corporations.
In NSW, rules protecting gliders changed in May after the Forestry Corporation raised concerns about the state's wood supplies.
A case was also brought to the Victorian Federal Court in July calling for a halt to the destruction of habitat trees across the state after a greater glider was found crushed near a firebreak inside a national park.
In June, a letter from 50 environmental organisations to federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek warned more than half of 40 proposed new coal mining projects across Queensland and NSW would destroy koala and greater glider habitats.
