I was away for a few days and on returning to Hornsby realised the neighbours house has been demolished. ‘Course I knew it was due this week. However, what aggrevates me is: The neighbouring plot of land also had some lovely trees outside the builtup area and these trees were atleast 15 years old or more as you’d notice in the photo above. It provided shelter to a lot of birds and generates oxygen and helps the eco system. Obviously the demolition company came in and ran the whole place down including the good old trees what wouldn’t have possibly done ANY damange to the new occupants/owners. Is there no law in NSW that protects the interest of flora and fauna from these mercenary nature-unfriendly builders! I know I sound like a nature freak but I do believe in preservation of the little that is left on our planet and there is hardly anything promising for the coming generations!! If you follow my flickr you’d have seen the images above not too long ago. Well some of those tree are just not there anymore. And every sunset I’d see atleast ten or more king parrots sometimes rainbow lorikeets or cockatoos perched up on those branches, not to mention the possums at night. We are depleting our natural resources way too ridiculously. Have you read Thom Hartmann’s “Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight“? Why talk of deforestation in Huon valley, Tasmania — killing the ‘ye olde’ world heritage its happening right here in my neighbourhood. It saddens me greatly!
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i hate it when people chop trees down. its so wrong!
This reminds me of a date I went on with a South African Property Developer (yeah, I know, do the words “maxine” and “south african” and “propert developer” belong in a sentence? I don’t think so…..).
Anyway, this guy’s argument was that if tree protection legislation was less stringent in NSW people would cut down fewer trees. His logic being that people aren’t allowed to chop down anything at all anymore, and they really want to chop things down, so they will break the law to do it, and effectively it becomes unregulated. Which isn’t entirely unfounded, but I don’t think his solution is a good one.
If people knew they were going to be caught and fined very harshly, then sure as hell parts of Mosman wouldn’t look like they do now.
I am not sure what Mosman looked like a decade back so can’t answer that but for sure it seems to me that people are very short sighted when it comes to green house gases effect. Studies show that in another decade or so green house gases can increase by about 70% its current level — if we continue to deplete resources like the present time. People are either unaware(unlikely) or don’t see how it impacts them at all in the long run. It really is a shame and more importantly a catastropy waiting to unfold in time! There is a LOT that we can all do to prevent this.
In my hometown you need the local council approval before knocking down any trees. If you go ahead without their approval you’ll face thousands in fines (per tree).
Ben, I am under the impression that the same rule applies to most places in the Sydney metropolitan but how these scumbags got away with this is a wonder!