GEORGE TOWN: About 40 mature trees along the Penang Hill range were found to have been severely vandalised by unknown parties. The trees along the hiking trail between Station 39 and Station 45, about a kilometre behind the Penang Turf Club and Ayer Itam’s Rifle Range Flats, were found hacked with the use of sharp instruments to ensure their slow death, a method called girdling or ring-barking.By removing a band or ring of bark around a tree, all the way to its hardwood core, the parts above the
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2021-10-03 00:00:00.0