Anger Over Felling Of Bonham Road Banyan Trees

Protesters have gathered by two banyan trees on Bonham Road to demonstrate against their removal by lands department officers.

Roy Tam of Green Sense and legislator Ted Hui, who is also a Central and Western district councillor. questioned whether authorities had taken all possible steps to conserve the two trees.

Tan also complained that the government had failed to learn from previous experience and only gave the district council a few days' notice on the matter.

Lands department officials said one of the trees has a fungal infection and both are at risk of falling on pedestrians. Part of Bonham Road has been closed while the trees are felled.

In 2014 a woman was killed by a falling tree on Robinson road, and in 2015 two sisters were struck by a falling Banyan tree on Bonham Road.