A contractor that illegally cleared saplings planted under the OneMillionTrees movement at the Central Catchment Nature Reserve was handed a 24-month conditional warning by the National Parks Board (NParks).The warning comes after investigations discovered that the illegal clearance at Lower Peirce Reservoir on May 29 was due to an error by a project supervisor, NParks said in response to media queries.Jessica Kwok, NParks' group director for enforcement and investigation, said that the contractor involved had been doing works for the cyclical replacement of the boardwalk at the park and needed a location near the trail entrance to store materials.Kwok added that NParks had communicated to the site supervisor that the area proposed by the contractor was not suitable for their storage space, and that NParks had identified a suitable location for storage, on the condition that no trees or plants would be affected.The project supervisor had reportedly misunderstood the instructions left by the site supervisor, she said in a statement to the media. Read more