Clarence
Valley Council, media release, May 21, 2018:
Tree
vandals hit Yamba again
MULTIPLE trees on the
headland between Yamba’s Convent and Pippi beaches are dying in what Clarence
Valley Council staff believe is a deliberate and brazen attempt to improve
views for nearby residents.
Council’s works and
civil director, Troy Anderson, said coastal trees had an important role in
protecting headlands and landowners needed to remember they belonged to the
community.
“The environment is not
theirs to destroy,” he said.
“It belongs to
everyone.”
Mr Anderson said about
20 trees had been poisoned in the area over the past six months. They included coastal
casuarinas, coastal banksias, pandanus and tuckeroos – all native and endemic
to the area.
“In the past two years
we have lost between 50 and 100 trees along our coastline.
“We’ve had it happen in
Wooli, Diggers Camp, Angourie and twice in Yamba last year – including the site
of this latest poisoning.”
He said staff would
prepare a report to council recommending a range of actions to mitigate tree
vandalism that could include:
managing
views for public benefit only at approved locations;
planting
species that will enable views to be substantially retained in locations where those
views may be enjoyed by the public;
public
awareness and education initiatives;
installation
of signage at the vandalised area;
installation
of view screens or containers at the vandalised area, and
rehabilitation
of the vandalised area.
“If people have any
evidence of who might be responsible they should report it to council and we
will follow it up,” he said.
The sites of
where some of the trees have been destroyed.
Trees between Yamba’s Convent and Pippi beaches destroyed
by vandals.....
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