Operation Save The  Trees

How Trees Help Animals

Many Different Species of Trees Help Animals 

Trees help animals in many ways! For example, the acorns and nuts that grow on some trees are food for small animals like squirrels and chipmunks. They provide shelter for a family of birds and other animals.

Since most animals rely on trees, they would most likely be extinct if there were fewer trees. For example, if the oak tree ever went extinct, the animals that get food from it would also start dying since the tree was its food source. 

If trees weren’t around anymore, what would happen to most of the animals? The answer is: They probably wouldn’t survive. Trees are essential to living, because they provide food, shelter, different kinds of material, and space for animals. Animals would be lost without them.

Deforestation

Deforestation is a loss of trees, either due to natural or human causes. 

Natural Deforestation 

Natural deforestation is when trees die due to natural causes. Some examples are wildfires, droughts, natural climate change (change in ecosystem’s weather), and acid rain. These are only some examples of natural deforestation.

Human deforestation

Massachusetts has been losing roughly 5,000 acres of forests each year to development. Some causes of human deforestation are expanding agriculture, population growth, wildfires started by humans, and logging (the cutting down of trees). All in all, humans are a main cause of deforestation.