Such activities may threaten the long-term persistence of several species of arboreal marsupials within wood production ash forests. Impacts at different spatial scales on arboreal marsupials and the implications of ecologically sustainable forest use. Any breakdown in these natural processes will lead to loss of forest ecosystem viability and consequent loss of wildlife and timber industry viability. The possibility of forest ecosystem collapse looms larger as we progress through the current and first intensive logging cycle. Regional systems of retained habitat as a planning framework.
Urgent action is required if the future of Australia's forest fauna is to be assured.
This action needs to include applying the results of current research and recognizing that if fauna conservation is not given higher priority than previously, then continued loss of fauna is inevitable. The future of Australia's forest fauna. Conservation of Australia's Forest Fauna, Royal Zoological Society of NSW, Mosman. Moreover, because a given species has survived disturbance regimes in the past, it is premature to suggest that it will persist in the future when new and recent forms of forest perturbation such as clearfelling are intensively and extensively applied throughout large areas of the forest landscape. IFA Newsletter, April 1997, pages 6-8.