About 150 yellowwood trees, an endangered species and the national tree of South Africa, were chopped down and poisoned in the Drakensberg because a government environmental group mistook them for black wattle trees, a report said on Tuesday.
The yellowwood trees that were destroyed were between 50 and 100 years old, Beeld newspaper reported.
The Working for Water initiative, administered by the department of water affairs and forestry, was created to fight invasive alien plants.
Source: News 24.com
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