by Irrira Rikki

Created on: September 01, 2009   Last Updated: September 03, 2009

EACH OTHER'S GUARDIANS

Every fruit eating creature of nature, plants seeds of the trees they have eaten. Even the forest and jungle trees which drop their seeds, help re-growth.

It took humans a long time to learn how important the planting of trees was for their own, as well as the Earth's total survival cycle. It might take one to grow 10 - 30 years to become established as a bigger tree; but it only takes the same 10 - 30 amount in minutes, to cut one tree down, of the same age.

The more tree-wise to the Planet's Plight we are becoming, the more - even schools and other projects - have taken to tree replenishment. Many remain still small and protected within their wind frames, but at least they are in the soil. Awareness is a big issue in why tree planting is great for the atmosphere. Without it, we would be having more problems than we already have, just with our own breathing.

One encouraging recent photo of trees planted - by my school-teacher husband - was in arid dessert grounds of a school, in 1995 in Botswana, Africa. These, though they know not who planted them, have now grown like the school, to double story height, with healthy green foliage. His hard work has payed off, where a large area is no more desolate; watered from a bucket and tin, where even water is a precious commodity.

The interaction between the Sun and the photosynthesis within trees leaves, and all plants, is only part of the cycle for healthy air to breath and live. Their carbon dioxide exchange gives us our oxygen supply in return. Trees help to absorb the CO2's toxic vapors in our atmosphere. The excess would create the story we all know of, as global warming.

With so much pollution in our atmosphere, plus population growth in exchange for trees, remnants of trees scattered between huge areas of stripped land, leaves our Earth gasping. One only has to see a child, or and adult fighting the same for their life, to know what Mother Earth herself must feel like, where no-one sees her.

We literately need the trees to help cleanse the atmosphere of pollutants, before we fall victim to our own past mistakes. Have you seen a tree hanging on for dear life, where not even a blade of grass will grow? It's a tragic sight for sheer survival. Some of us need coaxing to make such small changes even to our thinking.

Nomadic or indigenous folk have been blamed for felling and killing off trees for their wood to survive. In places some have been duped - or forced - into the monetary

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