Trees are not only life-saving storers of carbon, creators of oxygen, and bringers of peace and greenery, but there are large numbers of them on Earth. Three trillion, in fact! Unfortunately humans are depleting them by 10 billion trees every year. And while planting baby trees to replace the trees we’ve chopped down is important
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Why are trees important? It’s simple: We need trees, and they need us. Or life on Earth won’t survive. But trees fulfil lots of important functions. Find out more here: 4 Reasons Why We Need Every Tree and Plant on Planet Earth. ‘Why are Trees Important’ Poster All the reasons why we need trees are
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The Amazon is burning! Forests are being cleared by the football-field! Trees are being cut back or felled! These things are awful, but why should we care? What have trees got to do with us? Let’s look at 4 important reasons why we need trees… You might have heard that trees are the “lungs of
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The phrase “Climate Change” gets bandied about a lot. But what does Climate Change mean? As a result of human activity on this planet, we’re seeing increased storms, floods and droughts – and they are bigger and more devastating. Global temperatures, especially in the oceans, are increasing, and polar ice caps are melting, which means
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What’s all this stuff about Veganuary? Veganuary is a commitment to try the Vegan diet and/or the Veganism lifestyle for the 31 days of January this year or every year. How do you pronounce Veganuary? Almost like Jan-u-ary, except it’s Vee-Gan-You-Ary! Why January? Well that’s when lots of us make ‘New Year Resolutions’ to do
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Veganism: passing fad or here to stay? Veganism is being embraced, especially by young celebrities and their followers, and the numbers of people adopting vegan diets have risen exponentially in the last 10 years. Are they just trying to be trendy, or is there something else going on? Matt Prior, a vegan and vegan activist in
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The term ‘Animal Rights‘ is everywhere these days. To the point where perhaps it’s easy to dismiss, like the myriad of other things vying for our attention in the modern world. But here’s why the rights of animals are important… Now we could get into ethics and philosophy, but to me it’s simpler than that. Firstly
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