[blondie9x]

This is a crime. A terrible senseless crime in a time of environmental destruction by mankind. What we need to do is take any seeds of this tree and plant 20-100 of its potential children in the area. We need to grind this tree up and make food and strengthen the soil for the future trees in the site.

Potentially we then need more cameras or tighter restrictions when it comes to visiting the site during off hours.

When a tree is felled it will take decades or centuries for a baby tree to offset the same amount of carbon per year. Therefore we need to make sure hundreds are planted with compost for the trees.

Can anyone with connections to site discuss with them or share ideas with the community?

[jacquesm]

I was with you until the cameras. But I'd be happy to contribute to a bounty to catch whoever did this. I have similar feelings for tourists that climb on monuments as well (or that scratch their names into them).

[afiori]

I wonder if medium range/resolution sonar or sound cameras [0] could be useful for low resolution tracking.

It would probably still be a bad idea

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_camera

[blondie9x]

Doesn’t need to be cameras. Tighter restrictions might be more practical during off hours.

[mnw21cam]

It's on a public footpath. It's legally quite hard to stop people walking on those whenever they want to. Also, the land owner is the National Trust, and they don't tend to want to restrict access to open spaces like this. Also, there's not very much left there to vandalise now - you'd get more benefit by restricting access to the trees that are still standing elsewhere in the entire country, which is never going to happen.

[ricardobeat]

Are you from the area? I was under the impression this place is a vast open field, surrounded by farm land. Can’t imagine how you would restrict access.