Community group Grow Urban Shade Trees aka GUST has alerted the council to the dying Banksia trees on Ettalong foreshore along The Esplanade.
“Suddenly seven beautiful and iconic local native shade/habitat trees are dying and there are, what look to be, drill holes at their base” said GUST Spokesperson Jennifer Wilder
“The death of these trees will be a huge loss for pedestrians, beachgoers and wildlife who visit this stretch opposite the Atlantis apartments.
“It will also threaten the stability of the dunes and therefore any infrastructure nearby,” Wilder said.
GUST is asking locals who may have more information on this to contact Central Coast Council via email to: ask@centralcoast.nsw.gov.au
Primary source: GUST social media statement July 2022, Jennifer Wilder.