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‘It’s all about entitlement. Simple’: the rampant acts of tree vandalism on Australia’s foreshores | Paul Daley (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 11 months ago by vividspecter@lemm.ee to c/environment@aussie.zone

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[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 11 points 11 months ago

The Neutral Bay photo shows that the sought after view was skyscrapers!? How is that preferable over trees?

These same people would complain if high rise was built across the road.

[–] flexibeast@beehaw.org 6 points 11 months ago

On the one hand, trees are a critical component of the biosphere. On the other hand, taking this fact into consideration, and comparing it to the psychological and monetary value of a nice view, well .... "It'll have to go," the men of Krikkit said as they headed back for home.

[–] Lophostemon@aussie.zone 5 points 11 months ago

It honestly makes my blood boil.(metaphorically)

[–] TheHolm@aussie.zone 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I seen good solution for it. Instead of vandalised put e fence of size of the tree where tree was.

[–] Marin_Rider@aussie.zone 3 points 11 months ago

they do that on the central coast, they put huge signs in place of the dead tree. fuck those entitled NIMBY arsehols who do this

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 11 months ago

obnoxiously fluorescent backlit wacky inflatable wavy arm thing

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Some councils use shipping containers and billboards, per the article:

Councils in Victoria including City of Port Phillip and City of Bayside (where trees have been illegally removed to enhance views of the bay) have erected view-blocking billboards in front of poisoned or removed trees. Other councils stack shipping containers where trees once flourished.

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 1 points 11 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Woodford Bay on Sydney’s lower north shore, its exclusive white mansions and quaint boat sheds nestled into gnarly, urban bush abutting the harbour, has the type of serenity only lots of money can buy in Australia’s most ostentatiously wealthy city.

You don’t need Holmesian powers of deduction to figure that public trees right across Australia, not least in Castle Cove and Woodford Bay, are more likely than not killed by those seeking to enhance views and, accordingly, property values.

Socially, therefore, the illegal killing of trees is a contemptuous act of theft from community; a criminal offence that should be pursued with the legal and law-enforcement vigour of other property and wilful damage crimes.

Her recent book with John Page, The Lawful Forest, traces the social history – dating to pre-Norman England – of tensions between communal and relational property, and the “private, commodified and enclosed” opposite.

Similar strategies are used in Sydney, rural NSW and Queensland to multiple ends: to deny the awarding of a prized view for an illegal act; to discourage copycats – and to publicly shame perpetrators.

Jane Lofthouse, the manager of sustainability and environment at Tweed Shire in northern NSW, says that in response to episodes of “vegetation vandalism’’ since 2016 the council has erected large signs in front – or in place – of the canopies of damaged and removed trees.

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