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Woodland where 12 football fields worth of trees was illegally felled by its owner is to become a nature reserve after an organisation which helped in a long-running court case bought the land.

Jeff Lane caused a "devastating loss" to the environment by the illegal felling of 2,000 trees in 2019 on more than eight hectares (20 acres) on Gower, Swansea.

At the time, Natural Resources Wales (NRW) called it the worst case of illegal tree felling it had seen in 30 years.

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[–] Babalugats@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

There's no way 78k covers the damage done

[–] Babalugats@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And it was much less than that until they saw that he was profiting from it. He should've been fined everything he got for it including his initial cost to buy it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmjj5gl6m0po