Trees were found snapped, cut at the base with a hand saw or uprooted in an act of vandalism across eight parks in Melbourne’s south-east.
Rare and potentially irreplaceable trees were among almost 200 young plants and shrubs killed in a vandalism spree over the weekend, which spanned eight parks in Melbourne’s south-east and caused about $200,000 worth of damage.
Glen Eira director of sustainability, assets and leisure Niall McDonagh said the trees were planted over the past three years. Jim Magee, a three-time Glen Eira mayor and who is up for re-election as a councillor, said the destruction was the most disgraceful case of tree vandalism he had come across.“This smacks of a premeditated, concerted effort to just vandalise trees in Glen Eira, and it’s incredibly disappointing.”, after it dropped from 25 per cent in 2000 to 12.5 per cent in 2021. The council plants about 2000 trees a year.
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