Trees, The Pillars of Life
Divya Muddappa writes about trees on Nature Conservation Foundation’s facebook page. She celebrates trees through her note, eloquently expressing many things that we take for granted about these gifts of nature.
…trees have a range of survival battles to fight, too. Finding the right spot to grow, avoiding being eaten by herbivores, defending themselves with thorns and toxins, fighting with others for space and light, attracting the right pollinators and dispersers, extracting water, nutrients, and micronutrients from the soil and sending it all the way into the canopy—all of these are challenges that trees have solved in as many ways as there are species on the planet.
But despite their grandeur and the infinite benefts they bring, all around us we see trees being cut. We have already lost most of our old-growth and mature forests…