The Australian Greens have today criticised the Napthine Government’s band-aid gesture to protect Victoria’s faunal emblem, the Leadbeater’s possum from extinction.

“Here we have another example of a half-baked plan which will not ensure the possums survival,” said Dr Richard Di Natale, Greens Senator for Victoria.

“The continuing decline of the Leadbeater's possum in the Victorian ash forests is stark proof that logging and wildlife do not mix.

Dr Richard Di Natale asked the Australian National Preventive Health Agency about its recent draft report about alcohol advertising.

The Australian Greens today said that the resignation of respected ecologist David Lindenmayer over government inaction to protect Victoria’s faunal emblem the Leadbeaters possum is a huge wake up call for the Victorian government.

“Australia has one of the poorest records in the world when it comes to loss of biodiversity and species extinction,” said Dr Richard Di Natale, Greens Senator for Victoria.

Victorian Greens Senator, Richard Di Natale, is calling for an  immediate end to clearfell logging in the central highlands.

“The all-but-entire destruction of old-growth forest in the central highlands region is devastating,” said Senator Di Natale.

A report today in the US journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that old-growth Eucalyptus used to make up 80 per cent of the forest in Victoria’s central highlands but has been reduced to just 1.2 per cent.