Do you know what is the most valuable thing on our planet?
No, it's not money, it's not diamond or any kind of gems, it's not jewelry...
Most valuable thing on planet are forests
Forests occupy approximately four billion hectares or approximately 30 percent of the global land surface.
They are the most complex land-based ecosystems where you will find, besides the trees, many other species of plants, animals, mushrooms and microorganisms.
Forests have great significance in subsistence of our planet.
The direct and biggest benefit of forests is the production of oxygen and everything on this planet needs oxygen.
Some other benefits are that forest is the best and cheapest filter for drinking water, they prevent soil erosion and many others.
Big date in history represents 21.May and it's marked as "World Forest Day". 21. May is declared at the initiative of the General Assembly of the European Confederation of Agriculture 1971. and the initiative was accepted by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization too.
The significance of forests for survival is illustrated by the fact that ecologist Vangari Mathai received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004, which was first awarded in the field of environmental protection.
But biggest enemy to the forests is human.It's sad but true.
They have been reduced for centuries. People cut millions of trees to get a wood for food, heat and build houses. They also crush large spaces to transform them into arable land or pasture for livestock. Thus, natural areas are gradually changed and transformed into rural estates.
Next to deforestation, big problem is trash which is thrown by human again.
Not only that it do harm to plants and trees but it can easily start fire too. Great example is forest fire in California which is happening right now.
In 2012, here in my place, fire started due the glass bottle. It was very sunny day and light reflected through bottle and started fire.
So, main lesson from this post is that we need to keep forests clean and safe, We don't need to ruin them. They are just helping us, nothing else.
For the end, I will write you some interesting facts about forests and I think you should keep them in mind:
-A person can live without food for 5 weeks, without water for 5 days and without air for only 5 minutes
-Beech forests of 1 ha can receive as much as 68 tons of soot and dust
-Only 4 beech trees for 100 years provide oxygen to one man for 80 years
-World's forest atmosphere, annualy gives 86 billion tons of oxygen and absorbs as much as 119 billion tons of carbon dioxide
