Trees are absolutely vital to all life on Earth. To be blunt—humans cannot survive without them: they are nature’s air purifiers, constantly cleaning our atmosphere by absorbing carbon dioxide and releasing the oxygen that sustains us. They cool our cities and neighborhoods, protect our precious soil from extreme weather by reducing storm damage and flooding through their root systems and canopy cover. They feed us, provide us with raw materials for building and construction.
Entire ecosystems and millions of species, insects, birds, mammals, fungi, and other organisms, depend on trees.
