It makes me sick seeing the amount of damage caused by greedy people to the lovely Acuminata species. This tree deserves a much better treatment than being ring barked or chopped down.

It makes me sick seeing the amount of damage caused by greedy people to the lovely Acuminata species. This tree deserves a much better treatment than being ring barked or chopped down. one of W.A's highest containing Acacias are being destroyed. The other day when i went to york and had a look at the damage done to these trees it almost put a tear to my eye. Almost every acuminata i looked at had a bit of bark missing, some were ring barked, some were left with a tiny strip of bark and slowly dying and some were completely dead not to mention the few little ones i saw chopped down.
Its pretty easy with a little bit of research to see that the LEAVES of the ACACIA ACUMINATA contain up to 1.5 % alkaloids. and it also saves these people the effort of hacking away sticky bark and then processing it.
Taking the leaves from the tree harms it to an extent, but so much less than taking bark from it. its also a hell of a lot easier for the person. Simply cut off some nice leaves and let them dry out then crumble them up with your hands into a powder easy!
i have dome a few extractions like this and if you do a simple A/B tek you can yield higher than bark in some cases.
In the future i will put up a tek that i know works well but for now try using the leaves with your standard tek.
Thank you for reading my rant and HAKUNA MATATA TO THE ACUMINATA.