Queensland residents draws to the attention of the House the not fit for propose Code of Practice for native forest timber production on Queensland State forest estate 2020, (the Code), the ineffective Glider Protection Measures, and the ecologically reckless proposal to continue logging Greater Glider habitat in the South East Queensland Regional Plan area beyond 2024 under the previous intensive use scenario of a 40cm+ diameter at breast height (dbh) cut limit.

Whilst the Glider Protection Measures prescribe the retention of 80cm+dbh and 100cm+dbh trees in dry and wet sclerophyll forest respectively there is a paucity or absence of trees in these size classes at the landscape scale in our remnant State forests due to historical exploitation and more recent intensive 40cm+dbh logging. And, as detailed in Table 6.3.2a of the Code, logging operations may still be undertaken at the lowest permissible threshold of compliance where larger trees and live hollow bearing trees are absent.

The Code and the 40cm+dbh cut limit by default undermine any implied benefit the Glider Protection Measures may contribute to remedying the existing long term temporal deficit of tree hollow resources. Theses avaricious practices fail to adequately support viable genetically diverse metapopulations of arboreal hollow dependent native species to sufficiently safeguard them from the multiple compounding threats that contribute to their local extinction.

Your petitioners, therefore, request the house to bring this to the attention of the Queensland Premier Steven Miles and Minister for the Environment and Great Barrier Reef Hon Leanne Linard MP.