Benefits of Trees

Trees can:

• Slow down wind - plants grow better, heating bills go down.
• Give shade and protection against ultraviolet radiation (more is being let through because of ozone depletion) and skin cancer.
• Absorb pollution.
• Absorb carbon dioxide and slow down global climate change.
• Stabilize banks.
• Muffle noise.
• Trees can give shelter and food for innumerable species of animals and plants.
• Trees are especially important if they form "green corridors" connecting habitats up with each other and with the countryside beyond.
• Some trees are wildlife in their own right, if they are native to Britain and indigenous to the place they are planted, and made their own way here after the last ice age without human help.