Cutting down a tree like that sickens me.

I have seen what happens when people start moving to an area, we used to be a small fishing town, but now there are no fish houses on the water, it is all a tourist trap, and there are only a few places that you can get to the water, the mangroves have all been cut down or killed. Canals have been dug and fish estuaries were cut off from the river. Every time they build a new house, they completely clear the land of all trees. They filled in the swamps and called them The Highlands.

Good luck getting the kids to make restitution, maybe you can get their parents to make them plant and care for trees.