Lament of the abandoned trees

Running alongside Laonong River, Provincial Highway 27 provides stunning vistas of Eighteen Arhats Mountain off in the distance. On the short 11 to 15km section of the highway upstream from Kaohsiung’s Liugui District, the road is straddled with over three hundred mango trees aged in excess of fifty years. Each summer, it has become a local tradition for residents to harvest the tasty green mangoes with self-crafted devices. 

This year, the Directorate General of Highways (DGH) held two public hearings regarding the widening of Highway 27, at which time it was hastily decided to move hundreds of the mango trees. Recently, however, holes were found on 124 of the trees, leading to suspicion that poison has been used. It is a sad indictment of our time that the life force from these 50-year-old trees could be so wantonly severed without rhyme or reason.  

Lament of the abandoned trees 

URL：http://www.peopo.org/news/332339

(以下是中文對照)

泣樹 棄樹

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沿著荖濃溪上溯來到高雄市六龜區，有一條可以遠眺十八羅漢山的台27線道，從11公里到15公里處，短短數公里的道路兩旁，有著三百多棵樹齡超過50年的土芒果樹，每當夏季，居民便會自製工具，打撈檨仔青(芒果青)，這是許多在地居民的共同回憶。
    
今年公路局舉辦了兩場台27線道路拓寬公聽會，倉促決定移植這數百棵的土芒果樹，近日民眾卻發現已經有124棵被打洞，疑似遭毒害、被灌進不明液體。50年的老樹生命在無預警的情況下，被迫畫上休止符。