I LIVE at Banora Point, overlooking the golf course where at present they are in the middle of destroying a huge number of what appear to be magnificent mature fig trees that have been growing for goodness knows how many decades.

This I believe is to enable them to redesign the course because our ongoing dry weather has opened up large cracks in the ground.

It is honestly heartbreaking to watch and infuriating to know nothing can or will be done to prevent it.

I wrote to the council in October last year regarding the increasing number of trees and large shrubs that have been cut down in our district.

In particular I made reference to two stunning leopard trees that were removed from the front of a duplex.

The council's reply stated their arborist said the trees were in fact tipuanas and were in poor health, which is why they were removed.

This is untrue. I can say with 100% accuracy the trees were leopards, being these are one of my favourite trees and given their distinct characteristics.

I had actually taken my mother on a walk to show her these two trees.

To see them cut down truly enraged me, especially when a neighbour said the reason was due to the current rental owner not liking the small branches that fell onto their car parked beneath.

I had never seen any significant branches fallen from those trees.

Given the current tenants renting this duplex could very well not be there in the near future, these two beautiful trees have been destroyed literally on a whim - I am appalled but more so at the council's reply.

So as I sit writing this the roaring of great machines shredding and grinding up the branches of those poor fig trees rings in my ears.

I am so distraught about this and please let me say I am the last person to be accused of being a "bleeding heart greenie" but I do love our flora and fauna.

Where I used to live in Victoria, you practically needed a court order if you wanted to remove a branch from a healthy tree; heck, you even needed permission to cut down dead trees.

Yet here it seems if you don't like a tree being where it is, for whatever reason, you are permitted to chop it down.

Funnily enough the trees will have the last laugh, for just about every tree cut down and the stump painted pink with poison, there is new growth from that stump.

Go trees - I suppose they'll just have to look after themselves as no one else seems to want to.