We Need Trees
By Cerys Killan
The rainforest was cloudy but everything was
fine, until the humans came. They had a lot of equipment which they used to cut
down trees. This meant the animals that lived in the trees had nowhere to go.
All of the animals fled, well almost every animal. One monkey stayed and just
sat there crying as he watched his home get torn apart right in front of him.
I saw this and I cried. My name is Cerys and I
saw this when I was on holiday in the rainforest and decided to do something. I
have brown hair, brown eyes and glasses so nothing special but I thought I
could still make a difference. I am impatient so waiting until I got home was
hard but I did it and then it was time to make a change, but I’m twelve so
what could I do?
Once I got home, I decided to do some research
and I found out that trees are being cut down all over the world; even where I
live (Runcorn). This was bad because in Year Five I learned about climate
change and how trees produce oxygen.
I sat down to think for half an hour and realised
that my friends and family might want to help so I messaged my friends to meet
me at the heath park the next day.
Meanwhile, I told my mum and dad. Mum said, “okay
I'll help.”
Then dad said, “well okay but turn the lights off
first. Oh and the taps.”
The next day, I went to the heath park and Layla,
Rose and Daisy were already there and soon after Abby and Sophie arrived. I
told them about the people cutting down trees and Layla and Daisy said they
would help straightaway and after a while Rose, Abby and Sophie agreed to help
too. So we spent a few hours discussing until we had to go home and we had a
rough plan of what we were going to do. So we would all meet at my house, then
we would plant some trees in my garden and go around to different parks to talk
to the people cutting down trees and tell them to stop. However, we wouldn’t go
to the heath park because we go there a lot and we have never seen anyone
cutting down trees there before.
The next day, we all met up and planted four
trees each apart from Layla, she planted three (we only had twenty three
seeds). Then we went to different parks all over Halton and Warrington but
after two hours we hadn’t seen anyone cutting down trees. Only me and Abby saw
good in the situation; Since no one was cutting down trees in the parks not a
lot of trees were being cut down.
Half an hour later, we decided to go to the heath
park because we needed to think of a new plan but once we got there, we saw
them. People cutting down trees.
We walked over to them and started talking
but they kept saying things like, “this is just our job,” or, “why do you
care?” or “you’re too young to help!” or, “trees are just obstacles and we are
doing you a favour!”
This was so frustrating!!!!!!! Why couldn’t
someone just help for once?
We needed a new idea; nothing was working but
after an hour of thinking we decided to plant more trees and tell everyone
about the climate crisis. To make this happen we emailed the council for
permission to put up signs to tell others how we felt.
After a while of planting trees, we got an email
back saying we were allowed to make a small sign with nice decorations. So we
got to work making it. Layla, Daisy, Abby and Sophie started sketching ideas.
Then Rose put the final design onto a sign and then it was my turn. So I got my
sewing machine and started making a small earth (well half of it). Once it was
finished Daisy taped it to the bottom of the sign and we sent it to the
council. All we had to do now was wait.
A week later, I was at home and my mum and dad
told me that they now trying to reuse water and turn off lights when they can,
which made me smile. Suddenly, I got a few urgent messages from Abby and Sophie
on our WhatsApp group saying.
Come quick!
URGENT HEATH PARK!!!!!!!
Once we got to the heath park we saw the sign.
Our sign was up right in front of Esposito`s (which is a small place to eat).
We were so excited but Abby and Sophie told us that wasn`t everything. Our
names were on the back. OMG I was so excited and so were all of my friends.
However, Rose wasn’t excited for long: she had spotted something. Even though
most people were happy and started to care about the environment more, some
people were not happy. The people cutting down trees.
We decided to go over and talk to them. This time
they listened as we told them about climate change and the importance of trees.
However, they replied with the short and simple things we had expected them to
say like, “you’ve come this far but the rest will be hard. So quit while you
have the chance.”
They were being tricky so we were thinking what
to do next but the only thing we could think of was to email the council again.
I mean they helped last time; why couldn’t they help again? So we sent them an
email that said:
Hello, Halton Borough Council. We are writing to
state an issue that we are really concerned about. The sign was great. However,
people are still cutting down trees in the heath park.
Yours sincerely Rose, Daisy, Abby, Sophie, Cerys
and Layla.”
We waited about two weeks for a reply and when we
got one it read:
Thank you for addressing your concern. However,
we have gone out to most of the parks in Halton including the heath park and have
seen no one cutting down trees.
Yours sincerely Halton Borough Council.
We were all very confused so we decided to
go to the heath park to have a look.
When we got there, no one was cutting down trees
which was amazing but just in case we went to look around most of the parks in
Halton and Warrington. Still no one.
All we can hope is that they have stopped cutting
down trees but I guess we`ll never really know. This is the end of my story and
there isn’t really anything else to say but goodbye.
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