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Of course, this made him a natural enemy to the Ents, who were responsible for protecting the forests that Saruman destroyed.
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Saruman had either forgotten about the Ents' role as protectors of the forest or reasoned that they were too slow to act and too weak to stand against him.
This may be what Saruman had expected from the very beginning—that the Ents would come to Isengard and attempt gentler methods of stopping the destruction of their forests.
Source: https://screenrant.com/lotr-why-saruman-not-kill-ents-treebeard/