Letter - Tree Cutting

Dear Editor,

I get the impression that Tiara Damansara is the only condo in the Klang Valley—or, for that matter, the whole of Malaysia—that cuts trees down at the rate of a few every month. In a year, this would mean 48 beautiful trees giving ambience to the condo, not to mention shade, biting the dust.

It can’t be that Tiara Damansara is so unfortunate as to be the only condo in Malaysia to have a white ant infestation problem. If indeed this is the case, should we not send our staff to check with other condos how they deal with white ant infestation and still keep their trees?

It is such a pity when lovely trees are chopped down for no rhyme nor reason, like the beautiful tree behind a Queen’s Block recently (July 15th). Some of the residents there were virtually begging the tree choppers not to cut down the tree, but to no avail. And the interesting thing is, no manisfestation of white ants was found. Neither were its roots breaking the foundation of the units there, as I was told.

Maybe the Resident Council should take note what Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting stated in the June 26th issue of the Star:

"Local authorities are reminded not to cut trees indiscriminately or the target of planting 20 million trees by 2020 will not be achieved. He added that, "the purpose of the initiative would be defeated if local authorities go round planting trees and then cutting them."

Well, looks like Tiara Damansara is single-handedly going against this.

Very Unhappy Nature Lover