News From Around: 21 trees going out on a limb to ask for your help.

Sunday, April 30, 2017

21 trees going out on a limb to ask for your help.

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Hello, human!

Yes, you down there. We're talking to you.

2. Stars twinkle in the night sky over the treetops of a forest in Frankfurt. Photo by Patrick Pleul/AFP/Getty Images.

It's us the trees.

We need a word with you. And it's important.

Take a seat.

We feed you.

We cool down cities and sidewalks.

We release water vapor into the air and provide much needed shade to homes and streets to help keep cities cool.

We provide a beautiful, affordable way to clean up air pollution.

Not to brag, but in Chicago alone, we remove 18,000 tons of air pollution each year. And in Kansas City? 26,000 tons! Amazing, right? You're welcome.

We provide you with oxygen, free of charge.

And we even raise your property values and can help lower crime rates.

Again, you're welcome.

We don't do it for credit. But after helping out like this for millennia, we could use a favor.

We're being destroyed.

We're not given an opportunity to thrive.

Even in areas where timber operations are illegal, like the Amazon jungle, the practice continues.

It's getting dire for some of us. And for the animals that call us home.

Sumatran orangutans are just one species affected by Indonesia's booming palm oil industry. Millions of acres of prime peatland forest have been cleared to make way for plantations a practice that releases tons of carbon, displacing trees and the destroying animal habitats.

So we need you to give a damn.

We saw some of you at the March for Science. Thanks for that. But you're not done.

We need you to stand up for trees. In your communities, in your preserved natural spaces, and around the globe.

We need you to support conservation efforts, buy and support companies and products that don't contribute to deforestation, and encourage sustainable tree planting and harvesting.

The demand for avocado is so high that it's fueling deforestation in Mexico. Farmers are thinning out existing pine forests to plant avocados. Not cool, folks.

We need you to fight for us because we've bent over backwards to do the same for you.

Cough, cough, "The Giving Tree," cough, cough.

Even when you make fun of us for accidentally having belly buttons.

So, please, lend us a hand.

We'll keep doing our part to blow you away with our friggin' majesty.

Stop by and visit us anytime, OK?

We really like watching all of you grow up.

Warm regards,
The trees

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