Important People

Felix Finkbeiner started when he was young planting trees to help with climate change. He was just baffled at the fact that adults were not doing anything about this problem so he went to speak in front of the United Nations at the age of 9. He ended up founding Plant-for-the-Planet later partnering with the UN's Billion Tree Campaign. They have already planted 14 billion trees and there goal is to plant 1 trillion tree, that is 150 trees per person on Earth.






Jadav Payeng is from Northeast India's Majuli Island, the world's largest river island. It is threatened by massive erosion from climate change. Since 1917 the island has lost almost half of its land mass already from erosion. Jadav has decided to become a modern day Johnny Appleseed. He has planted a forests that is larger than Central Park. Currently there are elephants, rhinos, and other exotic animals that live there.

Healing Our Forests

There are many ways that we can heal our Earth back to stabilization, where there was actually clean air and animals weren't going extinct from deforestation. Cities can still exist along with the forests, there is enough room for us both. Ways to do this is to stop cutting the trees down and start planting them. Have more protected parks and forests. Have forests designed for trees to be cut down, kind of like your own personal tree farm. We need to learn how to be more self dependent and use our own resources that you grew yourself. People are getting into frenzies when there is a lack of one food when there are bigger problems going on. Our Cities are in an ever need to grow due to the massive population growth going on right now. This means that more and more trees are going to be removed for more living space so that people are "satisfied". Never in history has our world needed to come together as one to fix the root of all the problems being deforestation. If we fix that then other problems with be fixed as well like, population growth, pollution, extinction, etc.

Doing More Harm Than Good

The human population must find a way to preserve our worlds forests in order protect ours and every other species of life on this planet. Our world's forests are responsible for supplying every animal on the planet with oxygen. The rain forests are a huge contributor to the production of oxygen but the Temperate forest in the Siberian Taiga produces more oxygen than all of the worlds rain forests combined. With no oxygen, life will seize to exist.

Other than photosynthesis the trees can also recycle the air by absorbing the polluted air and letting out fresh clean air. In the past 150 years the Earth has had more damage done to it than it has in the last 65 million years. The Industrial Revolution started something that cannot be healed instantly if we stopped tomorrow, but it can be healed over time if we stop tomorrow. Stop polluting our waters with plastic and oil waste, stop polluting our air with carbon dioxide from cars and factories. The worlds forests can help with this though, cleaning our planet on tree at a time.

Other Problems

Deforestation devastates is not only a problem but a factor to other global issues as well. One of those issue being dried and nutrition loss of soils. When there are no roots in the soil to provide nutrition to the dirt it starts to harden and dry up making it impossible for other plants to grow. This will eventually lead to flash floods due to the soil being so dry and not able to absorb the water. Another issue that deforestation leads to is extinction of animals. There have been many plants and animals that have gone extinct due to deforestation, one group being many types of rain forest birds.

The Problems With Deforestation

Deforestation is a global wide phenomenon that is causing destruction and devastation where ever it goes. The cause for deforestation farming land, logging, wild fires, building developments, and more. Farming being the number one factor for deforestation. The increase demand for soy beans, palm oil, wheat, fruits, etc. Estimates have shown that almost 50% of Europe and Russia has been cleared of its forests for the above reasons.