Tree Conservation and Reforestation

Plant a tree today!

Trees prevent soil erosion, they are pretty vital in maintaining and regulating most water cycles, and help check global warming by using carbon dioxide in photosynthesis.

So it's very sad that over the past 50 years, about half the world's original forest cover has been lost.

But it's still not too late. Plant a tree seed today! It's the smallest thing but possibly the greatest gesture you can do today!

How do I start?

It can be a pip from an apple, an acorn from an oak or a winged nut from a maple - you can even go crazy and buy a whole packet of tree seeds from your local garden center if you want.

All you have to do is make sure they are the seeds of trees that found naturally - or "native" - to the place in which you live.

But where do you plant it?

On the side of the side of the street, in your garden, in the park, by a lay-by, on the side of a field or next to a wood... anywhere where there's space and light*. Then all you have to do is bend down, push your finger into the soil about to about 2cm (1 inch) depth - or use a pen - and pop that seed in. Then stand on the hole to close it over and tuck it in.

Go crazy and buy a packet of tree seeds from your local garden center if you wish.

Or go round your neighbourhood at the right time of year (usually autumn for most of us), and collect seeds from the many different trees that grow naturally in your area, and stock up for the year of planet-saving seed-planting ahead of you..