A WA farmer has admitted he deliberately poisoned dozens of native trees next to his home to minimise fire risk.
A Western Australian farmer has admitted to deliberately poisoning almost 70 native trees on public land near the state's south coast.
It said some of the impacted trees were "very large", and were potential breeding trees for the three threatened black cockatoo species in this region.A WA farmer has admitted to deliberately poisoning almost 70 native trees on public land near the state's southern coast. Peter Mullally has since admitted to the poisoning, claiming he did so to mitigate bushfire risk on his neighbouring property, ABC Great Southern reported.The City of Albany acknowledged Mullally's admission in a statement to 9News.
"Even though they've been poisoned, they're perfectly good, they can be pruned and greened up quite quickly and made into habitat. Turner said there were other ways to mitigate fire risk that would not be as detrimental to local flora.
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