Denmark locals mourn loss of decades-old fig tree bulldozed by developer on WA’s south coast

Members of a small town on Western Australia’s south coast are mourning the felling of a tree they say had been a part of their community for generations.

Residents in Denmark, a town of fewer than 3,000 in the Great Southern region, are said to have been shocked after the developer LWP demolished, without warning, an allegedly decades-old fig tree on the site of a former historic tourist area.

LWP group, which owns the land and has developed much of the surrounding…