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The Best Friend on Earth of Man is the Tree |
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by Dharmendra Kapri | 22-02-2015 19:28
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Trees provide us with life saving medicines, for instance quinine from the cinchona tree(once used to treat malaria) and salicyclic acid from the white willow(the active compound of our most popular painkiller- aspirin). Food and medicines are priceless gift that trees and forests generously give us. But the services trees and forests provide- often referred to as ecosystem service- are far more significant. Trees improve the quality of air we breath by absorbing dust and other air pollutants such as ozone, carbon monoxide and sulphur dioxide from the atmosphere. They control noise pollution by absorbing and blocking noise from the urban environment. They absorb toxic chemicals from the soil and also fight soil erosion by keeping the soil intact with their roots. In places where webs of tree roots bind the soil and a canopy of leaves breaks downpours of rain into genial showers, such as a forest, rain percolates through the soil into underground aquifers and feeds streams and rivers, by protecting watersheds which feed our rivers, forests conserve fresh water- the water on which all life from on land depend. Trees provide us shade during summer, specially on roads- and shelter birds, bees, butterflies and many insects and animals. Homo to up to 90% to know terrestrial species, forests are the most important repositories of the terrestrial biological diversity. Form the smallest insect to the largest animal on the planet- all forms of life require oxygen to live. By providing oxygenic air, which is indispensible for life, trees help life on earth to continue. Like human beings, trees too grow, make their food, exchange gases from the atmosphere and require water and like us, they also need to care to live and flourish. In return of the kindness they show to us and the invaluable services they provide us. Let us care for them? Let us help them live. |
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Former E-gen Ambassador
Dharmendra Kapri
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8 Comments
Totally agree with you Dharmendra :) Trees are our best friends.
Being near to trees makes person spiritually rich.
Posted 25-02-2015 15:56
Fully agreed Dharmendra. If tree lives we'll live. They are essential for our survival & we are careless towards them. This is unacceptable.
Posted 23-02-2015 20:46
This is a beautiful article! and its true there is no better friend. That's a little detail we fail to acknowledge everyday.
Posted 23-02-2015 17:51
True that!! Trees are the lungs of earth. Let's plant more trees :)
Thanks for sharing.
Posted 23-02-2015 16:21
Yes you are absolutely right.
We humans cant susatin without tree,we are in need of them from our first breath and util the end of our life.
So lets plant trees for the basic needs as well as to fight the todays worlds problem like climate change. :)
Thanks for sharing.
Posted 23-02-2015 10:54
Thanks for nicely highlighting the benefits of trees.
The trees around us are extremely important and have always been necessary for improving the human condition - both during its life and after harvest. Trees are essential to life and are the ground troops making up an environmental frontline. Our existing forests and the trees we plant work in tandem to make a better world.
Let's plant more trees and look after them as affectionately as our parents look after us.
Posted 22-02-2015 22:17
Thanks for the report Dharmendra. Without trees not even a single creative or living being can survive. Our r survival and existence is directly linked to condition of forest and trees.
Posted 22-02-2015 21:52
True enough, let trees grow! let it grow:) Well, you can also campaign for this advocacy of yours by organizing an event regarding planting trees.
Posted 22-02-2015 21:07