Trees are Beautiful, Useful But Seriously Threatened

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Trees are tall plants.  They are usually green in colour. Trees make food by themselves.  Some trees are planted by man while some spring up in nature by themselves.  There are four kinds of trees; the common trees, for example, the paw-paw tree, the exotic trees, that is, trees imported from other countries, the indigenous trees, those which exist only in one country as in Mauritius, the Ebony tree is unique and the endangered trees which are species in danger of extinction.  Trees are beautiful, useful but they are also threatened.

Trees are very pretty.  With their green leaves and larger extended branches and their brownish trunks, they beautify not only gardens but also parks, school yards, playgrounds, beaches and the whole country.  The environment needs trees every second throughout its existence.  These tall plants can be seen everywhere in the world in pictures, paintings….  Their beauty is captured by artists and photographers.  In spring, the trees look gay, dressed in bright array.  In summer, trees like the “flamboyant” blooms especially when the New Year approaches and covers itself with green and flaming red clothing.  But in winter, when it grows colder, these tall plants fling off their clothes and they appear quite naked.  The planet without trees would be nothing except bleak.  Indeed, beautiful are trees.

 Trees are also very useful.  When they spread long and full of leaves branches, they offer us shade.  In tropical countries, people like to plant them just for their shade and they can have a nice nap under it.  Trees manufacture their own food by using carbon dioxide, water in the presence of sunlight and chlorophyll to get as a by-product oxygen which they release as they do not need it.  So we are provided with oxygen needed for the survival from trees.  The latter absorbs carbon dioxide and release oxygen which purifies the environment.  Another usefulness of trees is that they bear fruits which people love to eat.  The trees give us food which is also required for our existence.  The fourth use is that trees give shelter to a variety of wild animals such as birds, monkeys, squirrels…etc.  These animals also obtain their food from trees.  These trees are the habitat and food for these animals.  Lastly, tall plants act as a water catchment area.  When there is rain, they accumulate this water by their roots and thus help small animals and plants under the earth to get water.  If there were no trees in the world, there would be no herbivorous animals, just carnivorous ones and they would for the sake of food, eat up one another until they vanish.  Not a living organism would exist.  There would be no life on Earth.  The latter would be just a barren, desert, lifeless place.  Therefore, trees are very essential and really useful to mankind.