Amazing Facts of Trees

Trees are the longest living organism on the Earth.g g g

A mature leafy tree produces oxygen for ten people to inhale fy p yg f p pin a year

One acre of trees can remove up to 2.6 tones of Carbon-di-oxide each year

N t di f ld Th kill d b i t No tree dies of old age. They are killed by insects, disease or people

An average tree absorbs 2000 liters of water every year.

The entire tree grows from the top and not from the bottom

Tree leaves remove tiny particles of soot, dust which otherwise damages human lungs.

Planting 30 trees in a year offsets green house gases from home and car.from home and car.

One tree filters up to 27 kg of pollutants from air.

The age of a tree can be calculated by its ringsThe age of a tree can be calculated by its rings.

Trees absorb 90% of the nutrition from atmosphereTrees absorb 90% of the nutrition from atmosphereand 10% from soil.

An average sized tree can provide woodfor 1 70 000 pencilsfor 1, 70,000 pencils.

14 billion pencils are made by cutting 82 000 trees 14 billion pencils are made by cutting 82,000 trees every year

A single edition of Daily News paper uses woodfrom 500 trees to make the paper.p p

850 million trees are cut down for making 50 million tons of paper

25 00 000 trees are used for publishing books25, 00,000 trees are used for publishing books.

Every ton of recycled paper saves 380 gallons of oil

We save 17 trees when we recycle every ton of paper.y y p p

Each vegetarian saves one acre of trees.Follow vegetarian diet.

Every book we read was once a tree.

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Plant a tree for every book you readPlant a tree for every book you read.

N N h B d l d Nurture Trees to Nourish Birds, animals and insects.

Nurture Trees to Nourish Water and Air.

Nurture Trees to Nourish EarthNurture Trees to Nourish Earth.

YKAUSALYA JANARDANAN