Not just jail time. Have them spend their sentence planting trees for 12 hours a day.

That reward comes to ~37 buckaroos per tree. Hopefully they catch the cunt(s) responsible.

The ABC has been told by some local residents they have witnessed suspicious behaviour in the affected area.

One said they saw people with torches walking through the bushland at night.

Just wanted to point out walking around in bushland with a torch is actually something people who enjoy the bush do too… great way to spot animals is at night with a torch (referred to as spotlighting). It’s not really a lead…

This is the best summary I could come up with:

A mayor on Sydney’s North Shore says she wants the person responsible for illegally destroying hundreds of trees jailed.

Authorities are investigating after 265 trees in a waterfront reserve on Willowie Road in Castle Cove were either cut or poisoned between January and June this year.

“They’ve also poisoned many species … including really old trees like a Sydney Red Gum or angophora that was 80 to 100 years old, so it’s really disheartening.”

“265 trees have been destroyed… including the habitat of animals like beautiful lyrebirds, bandicoots, and wallabies that have only sort of just come back into the area as well.”

Anne-Louise Hayden lives about two streets away from the scene and said the motive behind the crime was as “obvious as the nose on your face” considering the development of new houses in the area.

Ms Hayden said there had been other incidents of tree vandalism in Castle Cove in recent years and the fines were not a deterrent.

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Great comment on SMH was “Good opportunity for the council to make money. Now the land’s cleared sell it to developers with approval to go up 25 stories”

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