Eight people are due to appear in court following protests at a West Auckland development site where native trees were cut down.
Demonstrators clashed with police yesterday as they attempted to storm the land to stop the tree removal.
Native trees on the section on the corner of Canal Road and Wairau Avenue in Avondale have been cut down, with a developer planning on building houses in their place.
Activists have been calling on the council to purchase the site to save the greenery in a dispute that's been going back and forth since last July.
The protestors in Avondale tried to jump fences to protect the native trees. (Source: Other)
"Some of the trees here are the rarest of their kind within Tāmaki Makaurau, north of Tāmaki Makaurau. One of the trees laying down there was only one I know of ever of its kind. To see that taken away and to see the police assist in that, it breaks my heart," said protestor Zane Wedding, one of the people arrested yesterday.
Arborist Zane Wedding was among the group trying to stop the removal of native trees in Avondale. (Source: Other)
Several activists have been arrested at the site since protests began last year.
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