Police investigating after former tree of the year winner, estimated to be several hundred years old, felled
  • TheYang@lemmy.world
    937·
    1 year ago

    Can someone explain why it’s so terrible, that this tree has been felled?
    I don’t think I’ve seen it before, so to me it’s more significant that it fell on Hadrian’s wall. But I do seem to be ignorant here, so can someone educate me?

    • Kalkaline @leminal.space
      32·
      1 year ago

      It was hundreds of years old and people liked the tree enough that it was featured in photographs and film. It’s not terribly complicated.

      • andrewta@lemmy.world
        23·
        1 year ago

        He’s literally asking for knowledge. And your take is to ask him if something is only significant if he’s seen it?

    • SheeEttin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      At a minimum, it was owned by the national trust, so in no way was it his tree to cut down.

    • andrewta@lemmy.world
      13·
      1 year ago

      Not sure why you are being down voted. You are asking for knowledge. Others have provided decent answers though. Again not sure why you are being down voted.

      • TheYang@lemmy.world
        31·
        1 year ago

        Well, I assume some people understood me as asking “It’s just a tree, why the bother?”. I tried to get around this with wording, but whatever.

        I kinda guess this is largely a “local” thing (not sure how large “local” is though). And of course it’s a pity that an angry teen destroyed a hundreds of years old tree.