{"id":73394,"date":"2014-11-13T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/73394\/black-wattle-to-be-replaced-with-indigenous-trees\/"},"modified":"2014-11-13T12:04:04","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T10:04:04","slug":"black-wattle-to-be-replaced-with-indigenous-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/11\/13\/black-wattle-to-be-replaced-with-indigenous-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Black wattle to be replaced with indigenous trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The GCN received a query from Sydney Smith, who wanted to find out why the trees in Limpopo Road, Marlands, were being cut down?<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that there were no power cables in the area.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The GCN approached the metro to find out why the trees were being removed and metro spokesman Themba Gadebe replied: \u201cThe trees (Acacia mearnsii) in question along Limpopo Road were removed by the metro because they are an invasive species.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese threes fall under category two in the Conservation of Agricultural Resources Act (CARA) 2002 Legislation\/National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act, 2004.\u201d<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Gadebe also provided a list of additional reasons why the trees were removed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0they were lifting the tar\/road;<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0they are growing towards the road;<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0litter gets stuck under the trees;<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0they compete with and replace indigenous grassland and riverine species, as grasslands are invaded by dense thickets of black wattle.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThe metro\u2019s parks department intends replacing the black wattle with indigenous trees along the street soon,\u201d Gadebe concluded.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='6a267cc835cb65a6ac02268cc25cbdaa'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metro explains reasoning behind tree removal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":73416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8515,2],"tags":[5581,8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,5582,1662,1002,1004,1966,1965],"class_list":["post-73394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-black-wattle","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-limpopo-road","tag-marlands","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-tree-removal","tag-trees"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["Black wattle","community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","limpopo road","Marlands","metro","municipality","tree removal","trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}