Seedlings destroyed by select minority

For many years now, I have wandered the foreshore of Woy Woy Channel.

Years ago I can remember that there were many mangroves.

This year I was heartened to see a lot of new mangrove seedlings popping their way through the mud and sand.

Unfortunately, when I returned after a short holiday from sunny Queensland, where they embrace the mangrove tree, I noticed that every one of these seedlings had been removed and that the she-oak trees on the foreshore adjacent had been broken at the spine.

Now of course it is not hard to realise who has done this, I am sure the last thing someone wants are terrible trees and mangrove trees destroying their precious views.

One day the self-interests of a select minority who live on the foreshore will become less important than the majority of us who aren't so fortunate.

Email, 5 mar 2012 David Greentree, Woy Woy