Green Earth Movement An e-newsletter for the cause of Environment, Peace, Harmony and Justice

A. BENEFITS OF FORESTS
1. Forests Absorb and store carbon – Because trees absorb carbon dioxide
and turn it into wood, where
the carbon stays bound up
for hundreds or even
thousands of years, living
forests are an important part
of the earth’s climate system.
Growing trees soak up CO2
from the atmosphere and store it in their trunks, roots, leaves, and forest soils.
2. Home to people – Three hundred
million people around the world
actively live in forests and depend
on them directly as sources of food,
medicine and livelihoods.
3. Source of jobs and livelihoods – More than 1.6 billion people around the world depend on
forests to some extent for their
livelihood, according to the FAO. Some
60 million indigenous people are
completely dependent on forests for
all aspects of their survival. And about
10 million people are employed in
forest management and conservation
around the world.