DE BEERS Consolidated Mines has given 30 tons of marula logs to wood carvers at Bushbuckridge and Hazyview to reduce the demand on living trees. The company is clearing the site of a new diamond mine being established in Swartwater, near Ellisras in the Northern Province. De Beers’ surveyor Marius Visser said on Monday the logs were sent to the Wood Carvers’ Association in Bushbuckridge. “We may send more if we continue expanding the mine,” Visser said. De Beers is working with Mondi Papers and the Community Forestry Project in the Bushbuckridge area, which facilitates the delivery of the logs to the carvers. Spokeswoman for the Community Forestry Project Laura Yeatman said wood from development sites would help meet the demand for wood in the area.