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The Ancient Forests

Environment  (tags: ecosystems, environment, eco-friendly, Greenliving, greenliving, conservation, CO2emissions, humans, green, conservation, climate-change, ecosystems, destruction, endangered, globalwarming, globalwarming, habitatdestruction, habitat, wildlife, world )

Terrah
- 237 days ago - greenpeace.org
Ancient forests are the planet's old-growth and original forests. According to the World Resources Institute, almost 80 per cent of the world's original forests have been degraded or completely destroyed. Much of this loss of ancient forests is due to...
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Terrah Dawn (228)
Monday February 18, 2008, 6:45 am
Thanks to everyone for noting this
 

serge vrabec (172)
Monday February 18, 2008, 11:14 am
Your welcome Terrah!!

In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops. ~Paul Brooks, The Pursuit of Wilderness, 1971
 

Arielle S. (77)
Monday February 18, 2008, 12:36 pm
That is an awesome quote, Serge - I used to have a t-shirt that said if we could hear the trees screaming in pain, we'd never sleep again. Trees are so very amazing and so few people seem to even notice. :-(
 

Terrah Dawn (228)
Monday February 18, 2008, 10:41 pm
I wonder sometimes.... I bet they do scream. Dogs can hear certain tones/pitches we cannot. I'm not saying a dog can hear them, but I'm sure its a sound something can here scream....

Come to think of it, I guess we "tree huggers" can hear the trees and plants as they scream.

Thanks again everyone.
 
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