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Rare tree species at risk: Arboretum theft ‘an assault on the very essence of biodiversity conservation’

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A “reprehensible” theft at the district’s internationally acclaimed arboretum has raised biosecurity fears and is being seen as “a massive risk” to its unique collection of species. 

The Eastwoodhill Arboretum board, in a statement today, said it had been targeted by “a thief” who made off with propagation material for an endangered tree species described as “one of its ...


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