Dozens of trees have been illegally felled at a northern Victorian wildlife reserve in night-time raids, with a local resident saying she's been kept awake by the sound of chainsaws at night.
Illegal loggers have cut down dozens of heritage trees at a northern Victorian wildlife reserve in night-time raids described as"sickening" by a resident who has heard chainsaws in the middle of the night.
She said the sound of chainsaws had been keeping her up at night and that the perpetrators would have entered the reserve"between 10pm and dawn"."They're taking out a lot of old dead trees. The stuff they're taking out is irreplaceable.
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