August 9, 2026 — 5:00am

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Chainsaws, cash hidden in a shoe and trailer-loads of trees and vegetation hauled to a waste facility have culminated in the conviction of a gardener involved in one of Sydney’s most prominent cases of illegal tree-clearing.

Yi Wang, director of Sydney Garden Home, pleaded guilty in the NSW Land and Environment Court to three offences under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act following an investigation into the unlawful removal of 287 trees from protected foreshore bushland at Woodford Bay Reserve in…

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