Trees generate about 40 per cent of the world’s oxygen. To recreate the loss of trees in the past decade, we would need 1.3 million km2 and 140 billion trees.

Trees are the original multitaskers. They provide social, ecological, and economic benefits. They clean the air we breathe and the water we drink.

Every tree you plant is one closer to making the environment safer for generations to come. Together we can plant the future!

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Better Climate

Rainforests cover only 7 per cent of the land on earth but they contain nearly half of all the trees on earth. A mature leafy tree produces as much oxygen in a season as 10 people inhale in a year.

For every ton of new wood that grows, about 1.5 tons of CO2 are removed from the air. In one year, an average tree inhales 12 kilograms (26 pounds) of CO2 a year. One hectare of trees can absorb 6 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year.

Planting just 30 trees will absorb the amount of carbon dioxide that is generated in the production of energy for the average American lifestyle each year.

In one year a single tree can absorb as much carbon as a car produces when it is driven 26,000 miles.

Protect Wildlife and Animals

Animals need trees. Trees shelter and nourish wildlife, preserve habitats and safeguard the Earth’s biological diversity. Trees and shrubs along streets, in parks, and in our yards provide crucial habitat for resident wildlife and birds, as well as stopovers for migratory birds.

Fight Erosion

Deep roots anchor the tree and topsoil to deeper layers and increase the resistance to landslides and bank erosion under wet soil conditions. Trees stabilize soil and water resources, conserve rainwater and reduce water runoff and sediment deposit after storms.

Trees help soils absorb and conserve moisture by slowing rainfall and moderating surface runoff. They reduce soil erosion and intercept harmful pollutants from hard surfaces before they enter the storm sewer system.

Cool Down and Spend Shade

Trees are natural air conditioners: they release moisture from their leaves which cools the air when it evaporates. Cities are “heat islands” that are 5-9 degrees hotter than surrounding areas. Trees cool the air by providing shade and reducing the solar energy absorbed by asphalt and buildings.

Trees in schoolyards and parks protect children from harmful UV rays and skincancer.

Shield Noise, Wind and Snow

Windbreaks around homes are shields against wind and snow and heating costs can be reduced by as much as 30 percent. Windbreaks and shelter belts protect soils, crops, and buildings. Living snowfences, strategically placed, hold snow away from roads

Trees make effective sound barriers. Properly placed screens of trees significantly decrease noise pollution along busy thoroughfares and intersections.

Increase Property Values

Trees add beauty and grace to any community setting. They make life more enjoyable, peaceful, relaxing, and offer a rich inheritance for future generations.

Through their marvelous variety of shapes, sizes, colors, flowers and shade patterns, trees add visual interest in every season and beautify a property or neighborhood. Trees can increase the residential property value by 15% or more. Similarly, homes in well-treed communities tend to sell more quickly, have higher occupancy rates, and tenants stay longer.

Trees can be friendly street bumps. Lining streets with trees is a known technique for the voluntary slowing of traffic in residential neighbourhoods.

Well-placed trees reduce energy loss from buildings and lower heating bills in winter.

Celebrate Life

Planting trees shares the joy of a birth or birthday, remembers a loved one.

Trees help reduce stress in the workplace. Business leasing office space in wooded developments find their workers are more productive and absenteeism is reduced.

Patients in rooms that overlook green space recover more quickly than those with rooms that overlook hard surfaces.

Trees provide walnuts, pecans, hickory, plum, peaches, apples, pears, berries for jams, jellies and maple syrup.

Clean Water and Air

Trees remove significant amounts of dust from the air. Sulphur dioxide, nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide and ozone are absorbed by the leaves and dissolved in the moisture of the leaf tissue. Dust particulates are trapped by the leaves.

From low level ozone in our cities to pesticide and fertiziler runoff from our farms trees help cleanse the air by intercepting particles and remove air pollution by lowering air temperature, through respiration, and by retaining particulates.