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.