Nearby residents are now on the hunt to out the culprit who they think they know the identity of.
Mt Pleasant resident Joshua Ryan posted images of a chopped down tree to a community Facebook group and asked if anyone knew anything more about it.
Beth Jolly reposted Ryan’s photos and told people to stay vigilant and report the “nutter” vandalising the community to the city council.
An anonymous commenter said the individual is out at all hours of the night cutting trees and is aggressive and erratic.
Ryan was taking his brussels griffin, Awhi, for her weekly walk through the reserve when he first spotted a tree that had been cut down.
“I thought ‘what are they cutting that one down for?’”
He was trekking through the reserve with Awhi again last week and found a pohutukawa had suffered a similar fate.
It had been hacked halfway through the trunk before being pushed over.
"I just got a bit p****d off to be fair, and what else do you do when you’re p****d off? Put an angry post up on Facebook.
“Trees are pretty helpless,they can’t really stop these sort of things from happening to them, it’s pretty cowardly to be honest.”
City council head of parks Rupert Bool said it had not been made aware of the tree removals.
"We are happy to receive more information on this and staff will go to the reserve to investigate this,” he said.
