The following information will show you why planting trees is so important to our global ecosystem. Please read on to discover just how much of an impact trees have on our world. It’s not too late to start helping and every person has the power to promote global change.
Each minute approximately 1 acre of trees is being destroyed.
Trees improve water quality because they slowly filter rainwater as well as wastewater.
Trees absorb carbon dioxide and produce oxygen thus renewing our air supply.
A single tree produces around 260 pounds of oxygen in one year.
One acre of trees removes 2.6 tons of CO2 per year, thus helping to reduce the greenhouse effect” by absorbing the CO2.
Every person in the U.S. on an annual basis produces approximately 2.3 tons of CO2.
The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere would be reduced by one billion lbs annually if every American family planted at least one tree.
According to the USDA Forest Service, a tree generates $31,250 worth of oxygen, provides $62,000 worth of air pollution control, and recycles $37,500 worth of water, and controls $31,250 worth of soil erosion, over a 50-year life span.
U.S. urban forests store 800 million tons of carbon, which equals $22 billion in control costs.
One of the cheapest, most effective means of drawing excess CO2 from the atmosphere is planting trees..
One mature tree can absorb carbon dioxide at a rate of 48 lbs./year and create enough oxygen to support 2 human beings.
If you are unable to plant trees because you live in a major city, don’t have a yard, etc. then sponsor one to help ensure a greener and cleaner earth.
Since the air and atmosphere don’t have borders it doesn’t matter if your adopted tree is located near you. Air pollution or greenhouse gasses that are released in India can be erased with the planting of trees in Europe, South America, Africa, etc. The important thing is that trees do get planted to help clean up our global ecosystem.
Your adopted tree will not only help to clean the air, but it will also serve as a home for native wildlife such as many species of birds, squirrels, deer, foxes etc.
Trees are the longest living organisms on earth, so there is a good chance that your adopted tree will outlive you and continually help to clean our air as well as soil. Your contribution today could leave a lasting and beneficial impression on our Earth for generations to come.
Since trees produce hundreds of seeds every year one adoption will likely lead to the creation of hundreds of trees.
Trees lower air temperature by evaporating water in their leaves.
Trees lower carbon levels in the atmosphere by storing it in their trunks, leaves, branches and roots.
