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'Money always wins': Inside Sydney's underground tree-killing industry
Sometimes they're armed with a chainsaw, sometimes a bottle of poison, and often they're operating in broad daylight. So why is it so hard to catch Sydney's tree killers?
Tress with pink ribbons in Castle Cove, Sydney, NSW(ABC News: Brendan Esposito) Louise and her husband Jim are fed up watching the environment around them lose out to development, or because people simply don't like trees close to their homes. One North Shore resident — who does not live in Castle Cove — told Background Briefing that she'd illegally removed a tree in her front yard in order to improve feng shui. (ABC News, Brendan Esposito) As a kind of collective public shaming, council has erected huge yellow and orange billboards that face the houses opposite the site.
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