Tree canopy brings reprieve to YWP
Alien trees are only a threat when such a species destroys our lovely African vegetation. Why?
EDITOR – Dear old Yellowwood and other wood ghosts.
What should we name the once beautiful park, perhaps ‘E desert’?
A large tree is probably 100 and even more years old. A fair-sized tree provides enough oxygen for 30 ungrateful people in a day. Eradicate them and drive your expensive petrol guzzlers, which incidentally increase human carbon emissions dramatically. At the rate we are murdering trees, our grand children will be gasping for breath. Their children will not survive.
Yellowwood Park is cooler than the rest of Durban, due to the canopy of shade created by the trees. One wonders how long this reprieve will continue?
The frightful N2 emits rubber dust in great volumes. The poor, abused trees filter this rubber dust from blackening our homes and lungs.
Alien trees are only a threat when such a species destroys our lovely African vegetation. Why? Why destroy the innocent mango trees? Or do some imagine that they are on a crusade to prove how environmentally friendly they are? Do such individuals realise how unwise they are? One can only dream that they do.
Dead wood lies in shame for months on homestead verges, proclaiming to all that a victory has been won over trees. But surely proclaiming too how lazy individuals do not remove rotting wooden piles.
