The mother duck flew away when she was startled by workmen but later returned to collect her ducklings and work to fell the tree continued

Fran Strachan

Thames Ditton ducks

A family of ducks attempted to thwart the councils removal of a 200-year-old cedar tree in Thames Ditton this week.

After a battle over whether to cut down the tree, with some residents wanting it to stay and others agreeing with Surrey County Council that it was a health and safety hazard, work on the tree on the corner of Queens Drive and Kings Drive began on Monday (June 9).

But the next day, after the lower branches were removed, a family of ducks was found in the tree and work had to stop.

Fran Strachan, a resident of Queens Drive, said: Some people think it is a danger but it is a beautiful tree.

She said that the person whose house it was directly outside was worried about it falling on their home, especially after some branches fell in recent storms.

A county council spokesman said: This is a huge mature cedar tree and we have been trying to prolong its life over the years with the help of bolts, cables and braces. Unfortunately, earlier this year a large heavy limb fell from the tree, not injuring anybody but requiring us to take action. We looked into a number of possibilities but the only way to guarantee safety was to fell the tree.

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Lovegrove trees still under threat

The public campaign from Tree Street residents has reignited after Bunbury Deputy Mayor Brendan Kelly warned the trees on Lovegrove Avenue could be removed.

The Friends of Lovegrove residents group thought they had won in their campaign against the councils proposal to alter Lovegrove into a one-way street and remove five trees for more parking bays.

Instead, the council last week agreed in a drawn-out debate to a compromise proposal to retain the trees.

However, on Friday, Deputy Mayor Brendan Kelly told the group there was nothing in the decision preventing the trees being removed when the council completed its drainage works on the street.

This is despite council voting 6-5 against a proposal to remove the trees during the meeting.

If an extra ten car parks on the northern side of Lovegrove Avenue will enhance safety, then in order to find room for those car parks the trees will go, Cr Kelly said.

Tree removal is likely to happen in any case to facilitate the necessary planned drainage works.

There should be no allusions about what will happen as the work for extra car-parking and new drainage in Lovegrove Avenue proceeds.

Mayor Gary Brennan said the trees could be removed during the street upgrade, but only if they were damaged.

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ILOILO CITYOutrage over the planned cutting of trees for government road-widening projects has reached this premier city.

Residents have petitioned the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to stop removing any portion of the elevated concrete strip dividing General Luna Street.

To widen the roads for more motor vehicles, the remaining greenery on the center island of General Luna Street is being removed and paved over with concrete. Soon, the trees that now provide shade and oxygen to our people will also have to be cut and removed, they said.

The 1.7-kilometer General Luna is a four-lane thoroughfare stretching from the University of the Philippines Visayas campus to Arroyo Fountain in front of the old provincial capitol. The street, considered one of the citys landmarks, has been identified through its decades-old trees that line the stretch of the street on the elevated concrete strip.

The city council and environmental advocates have raised outcry over the planned removal of the trees due to an ongoing road-widening project.

The DPWH project involves the widening of the street by removing about half a meter from each side of the concrete strip to widen the road into six lanes as part of efforts to ease traffic.

But the petitioners said roads should provide space not only for motor vehicles but for walking, biking and the planting of trees.

Given the choice, most of them would like to walk or bike, enjoy the shade and breathe clean air from the oxygen exhaled by trees. Are they not also entitled to public space and clean air as a matter of right? according to the petition sent to DPWH regional director Edilberto Tayao.

Tayao said he had not read the petition but said that while the road-widening project was continuing, no trees would be removed until they have clearance from the city council and the city environment and natural resources office. He said trees along roads and streets that could pose danger during typhoons would be removed to prevent accidents.

Some of the signatories included professionals, nuns and students.

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