This is organized crime and the economical effects are devastating. It does not matter if the trees can regrow The keyword here is diseases. Olive tree tubercu

This is organized crime and the economical effects are devastating. It does not matter if the trees can regrow The keyword here is diseases. Olive tree tuberculosis for example will easily propagate if you use the same pruning tool on different trees without disinfecting it. This is not a joke. We are talking about estimated damages of 20 billion euro (with a B) that the European Union has been suffering just by Xylella fastidiosa, the "olive tree ebola" at a rate of 5.5 billion bleed each year since it appeared in Apulia Italy on 2013 and later on Spanish almonds in 2016. The disease can affect olives, almonds, figs, plums or cherries. It has 500 species of hosts. Several new plagues entered inexplicably by Italy or Spain in the last decades. We should treat it much more seriously.