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Trees Make Our World Beautiful

Trees make our world beautiful and provide us with many obvious benefits such as shade, privacy, shelter and food for birds and other small creatures.

Besides these obvious benefits, trees also contribute to the health of our planet. They clean the air by giving off oxygen, storing carbon, and recycling moisture into the atmosphere. Trees help prevent soil erosion, help modify temperatures, and act as windbreaks.

Since a tree is half carbon, trees represent one of the best ways to extract carbon (which enters the tree as carbon dioxide) from the air.

Source: Government of Ontario

Did you know?

  • About 11% of all carbon dioxide emissions in Canada are from cars — more than rail, marine, and air transportation combined.

  • Increased levels of carbon dioxide threaten to enhance the atmosphere’s natural greenhouse effect, leading to global warming.

  • By burning fossil fuels we contribute to acid rain and smog as well as global warming.

What to do?

  • Walk, ride your bike, carpool, or use public transport when possible.

  • Keep engines well tuned, and tires properly inflated, to maximize fuel efficiency.

  • Shut off your engine even for short stops.  One minute of idling uses more fuel than re-starting your engine.

Source: Environment Canada

10 reasons why trees are important:tree

  1. Produce oxygen.
  2. Clean the air.
  3. Absorb and store carbon.
  4. Clean the soil.
  5. Slow storm water runoff.
  6. Control noise pollution.
  7. Act as windbreaks.
  8. Fight soil erosion.
  9. Provide shade and cool.
  10. Increase property values.

Source: Steve Nix www.forestry.about.com
 

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