As a Sunshine Coast town argues over the planting of 'messy' bunya trees, vandals chop them down

 Residents in a Sunshine Coast hinterland town are dismayed after several bunya pines were chopped down following a community dispute about the trees being planted. 

Sunshine Coast Council planted 40 bunya saplings in recent months, but locals noticed this week that nine trees along Eumundi-Kenilworth Road had been cut off at the base.

The trees, which have Indigenous significance, have been the source of angst in the Kenilworth community.

Ian Mackay is chairman of the Mary River Catchment Coordinating Committee and condemned the "vandalism".

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