Stop Cutting Down Trees!

By Yasmine

 

One winter morning, a peaceful rainforest in the Amazon was being cut down by a group of people. The people acted like it was doing no harm but really they were destroying homes of all sorts of creatures like birds, spiders, squirrels and more. Around 2.3 million species live in trees. So if you cut trees down you are destroying the homes of millions of species. Imagine if your home was being destroyed. You wouldn’t be happy and you wouldn’t have anywhere to go. Cutting down trees is not only bad for animals but it is also bad for us. Trees take in CO2 ( carbon dioxide) and let out oxygen.

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Hi. My name is Yasmine and I am ten years old. I am angry about climate change because not many people are playing their roles and trying to stop it. I know for a fact there are many of you who are helping to stop climate change but I also know that there are many of you who just ignore it. If you keep ignoring it you put the future of everyone at risk. There are many ways to stop climate change such as using less paper, plastic and also electricity. You can also teach little children by playing fun games that include recycling.

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Me and my friends are doing everything we can to stop deforestation. You use trees in your everyday life. Paper and lots more is made out of trees. In one year approximately 15 billion trees are cut down for things such as firewood, furniture and paper but only 1.9 billion trees are planted in one year. This means we are losing 13.1 billion trees every year. This affects all of us, even animals. By cutting down trees we don’t just harm people but we harm many species of bugs and animals without even knowing.

When you go to a park or a forest you see trees which are very tall and have lots of thick branches. These take very long to grow, therefore if you cut one down it will take even longer to grow back if it is being replanted. Lots of people just cut trees down and don’t plant any to take its place which leads to more trees being cut down than planted.

Many people don’t really mind if trees are being cut down. Lots of companies cut down trees for wood because people buy wooden items. If you stop buying so much wood then there will be less trees being cut down. Trees give us oxygen which means less trees equal less oxygen while more trees equal more and cleaner oxygen. Everyone needs oxygen to survive. It is the key to living. To stop deforestation we need companies to cut less trees down and try to use less wood. We need wood for lots of things but we don’t need it for everything. There are many people who try to use wood for loads of things when it could be replaced with other materials. If everyone could use less wood then we would be saving thousands of trees even millions. If we want to save trees then we need to spread the word.

If you have trees in your community remember to look after them. Trees do a lot for you so why can’t you do something in exchange. Without them you wouldn’t be living. They are the key to your survival. Everyone can make a change. It's never too late to do the right thing.

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