Each Arbor Day, I try to share something about trees. This year a friend shared a video about trees on facebook that had some facts exemplifying the importance of trees, what is happening to trees, and why it is necessary for our continued existence to replenish trees.
Trees improve water quality by slowing and filtering rain water as well as protecting aquifers and watersheds.
The average tree will drink approximately 2000 liters of water each year.
By cooling the air and ground around them, the shade from trees helps cool the earth’s temperature.
trees renew our air supply by absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen.
Trees provide shelter and a home for wildlife.
It takes approximately 2 tons of lumber to make 1 ton of paper.
One ton of recycled paper saves approximately 15 trees and their habitat.
On tree removes about 3/4 ton of carbon dioxide over its lifetime.
One car can produce up to four tons of pollutants a year, but over time 2 trees will remove it.
A single mature beech tree can provide the oxygen for 10 people in a year.
Over one given year, one hectare of mature woodland will absorb the carbon emissions of 100 average family cars.
An oak spends 300 years growing, 300 years resting and 300 years declining gracefully.
Britain has the largest population of ‘ancient’ trees in Europe.
The world’s Britain’s oldest tree is probably the Fortingall Yew in Tayside, which is believed to be over 3000 years old.
The tallest tree is a Coastal Redwood in California at 360 ft.
The world’s oldest trees are Bristlecone pines in the USA, with confirmed ages up to 4600 years..
The world’s oldest tree has recently been discovered in Sweden. It is a tenacious spruce with a root system 9550 years old.
It’s estimated there are 400 billion trees on earth now, that’s 61 per person.
We are destroying the world’s precious ancient forests at an unprecedented rate.
Less than 10 percent of the planet’s land area remains as intact forest landscapes.
Only now are we realizing the importance of replenishment.
Do not look on trees as a commodity, but as an endangered species.
I took the facts above from this You Tube video. Take the 5 minutes to watch the video and see some spectacular images of some amazing trees.
Then, go plant a tree or two or three.


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