ShShSu #142. "International Year of Forests"

The United Nations has launched 2011 as the International Year of Forests, "Recognizing the role that forests play in everything from mitigating climate change to providing wood, medicines and livelihoods for people worldwide", this will be a year-long "celebration to raise awareness of the value of this important resource". The full article is available here.

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My personal celebration (and challenge) will be to include trees in my blog as often as possible. I’m not sure if I’m up to it, but I’ll give it a red-hot go. I like trees, from many viewpoints.  They’re fantastic to paint, photograph, hug, climb and plant.

But I’d also like my children’s, children’s, children to have clean air to breathe, to experience the wonder of standing beside a living thing that is hundreds of years old, and to be mesmerised by fabulous colours and dappled light.

There are many other reasons, but that’s a hundred words, so I’ll stop.

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