Our Forests; Our Environment

Trees have always been the saviors of the people. Gathered together, covering millions of kilometers, forests provide beauty and oxygen to everyone alive today. Unfortunately, trees are also the only source for the wood that is used in development. Australia was once a forest covered continent. Today, nearly all of those forests are gone.

Forests and the environment carry on a careful relationship of supply and demand. The environment demands more oxygen as populations grow and the forests supply more, as needed. But, with the obliteration of some many native forests, the environment keeps demanding and the forests can no longer keep up with the supply.

This lack of oxygen has slowly, but surely, changed the face of Australia. The large, colorful Great Barrier Reef is one example of this change. It has been noted that the reef is dulling in color, over time. This color change is due to the rising temperatures of the ocean waters. The reef is dieing and the lack of forests could be to blame.

The more forests are ravaged and destroyed, the more our environment will take back from Mother Earth. Our lives depend on the life force supplied by the trees and without them, eventually all things will dull like the reef.

Forests are not just the sole suppliers of oxygen, but the homes of many species never discovered by man. These species are destroyed before anyone ever has the chance to view their beauty and splendor. Every forest that is destroyed is the home to a self contained eco-system of life.

Our environment needs the trees to survive. Our people need the forests to breathe. Without the careful preservation of the remaining forests and the replanting of cut woods, our Great Barrier Reef will soon die off as will many living, breathing beings.