The war waged against native trees continues in the same demented fashion.
No frenzied religious fundamentalist is more obsessional. The dogmatic refusal to allow nature to seek its own salvation amounts to manic control-freakery.
The worst of it is that it's so easy to do yet leaves them with a satisfying sense of power over nature, a fatal combination aiding the addiction.
These are mainly hawthorns, wonderful native trees in a near roadside position axed and mutilated.
To comprehend the philistinism here we should be aware of hawthorn's biodiversity value - and biodiversity value is what conservation organisations themselves refer to when trying to bamboozle the public. We should note that among UK trees hawthorn has the fourth highest number of insect species associated with it, coming only below oak, birch, (both also persecuted here) and willow. And the older it gets the more important it becomes. Hawthorn can live to a great age. No comfort at all to the trees destroyed by those anxious to add to their chain-saw hours.
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