The Role of Trees

Animals and plants need each other, carbon dioxide is exhaled in the breath of all animals, Carbon dioxide is necessary for plant life which in turn produces oxygen for humans and animals to breath. This is one reason the destructive lumbering of the world’s forest is no small matter. In this depletion of forests, many countries are guilty. The population of the earth is rapidly increasing, but vegetation is disappearing and with it, vital oxygen production for sustaining life.

The alarming rates at which our forests disappear has been traced to the following causes such as indiscriminate logging, extensive shifting cultivation, mining activities, conversion of forest land into alienable or disposable land and forest fire. What is really sad about the destruction of forest is that those big trees which take more than a hundred years to grow are felled in only about three minutes with the use of the power saw.

And also, Forest trees protect the soil in many ways, the roots of the trees hold the soil particles together, the thick canopy, as well as the thick layer of fallen leaves on the forest floor, prevent the raindrops from directly falling on the ground, because of that soil erosion was prevented. The people should stop cutting trees; it may lead to destruction of wildlife species and loss of rich topsoil.

Let’s join in the campaign “Reforestation”.