I really love greater gliders. Who wouldn’t? They're Australia’s largest gliding marsupial. They sail between trees in State Forests, feeding almost entirely on eucalypt leaves and relying on multiple different hollows. But Greater Gliders are endangered because the large old trees they need are disappearing. Chopped down for toilet paper and woodchips!

I mention the Greater Glider here not because it matters more than everything else, but because its survival tells us whether the forest is still functioning. Protect its home and we also protect powerful owls, glossy black-cockatoos, forest bats, frogs, pollinators, cycads, fungi and countless less celebrated species. We protect the hollow and the tree that carries it, the creek below it and the soil from which the next forest must grow.