Social media followers, who often condemn the Napier City Council, are getting in behind the council and police to try to end a spate of illegal tree fellings on city reserves.
The latest attacks, on a reserve off Westminster Ave, Tamatea, were highlighted on Wednesday on the council's Facebook page.
"We don't enjoy writing these posts, not at all," the council said. "But last night (Tuesday) someone had a crack sawing through a large banksia off Westminster Ave in Tamatea. It's a lovely walk: it was a lovely tree."
The vandal managed to get halfway through, and high winds overnight "finished the job", the post said.
It was the latest of at least of what could now be at least five attacks on trees on Napier reserves since November last year, and the council's social media team expressed the disdain of staff by saying: "It sucks."