World's Largest Tree Covers 18,918 Square Meters Of Land!

Believe It Or Not Its True!

This two hundred and fifty years old is worlds largest tree spread along 18,918 square meters of land (3.5 acres). From a distance, the tree has the appearance of a forest, but what appear to be individual trees are actually aerial roots- around 3,600 of them.

This is a satellite view of the tree.

It is The Great Banyan Tree in the Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Botanical Garden near Kolkata (Calcutta) India, making it the widest tree in the world.

The Great Banyan tree is over 250 years old, and its date of birth is doubtful. there is no clear history of the tree as to the time of planting etc. but it is mentioned in many travel books of the nineteenth century as a very spectacular element.With its large number of aerial roots, which grow from the branches and run vertically to the ground and looks like is has so many trunks, The Great Banyan looks more like a forest than an individual tree.

A 330 meter long road was built around its circumference, but the tree continues to spread beyond it. The present crown of the tree has a circumference of 486 m. and the highest branch rises to 24.5 m; it has at present 3772 aerial roots reaching down to the ground as a prop root.

 It survived two great cyclones in 1864 and 1867, when some of its main branches were broken.After two cyclones which led to a fungal attack, the tree’s main 15.7-meter-wide (51-foot) trunk had to be removed. Fortunately, the "clonal colony" of tree itself remains healthy.A monument has been erected to the dead trunk, but is hardly accessible to visitors, who only have access to the perimeter of the tree.

Suppose we have million such trees, What a better wish for our Mother Earth. What do you think? Please share your thoughts. 

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This Man Bought 28,120-acre of Forest in USA to conserve it!

This Man Has Created History In Conserving Our Green Cover!

He bought  28,120-acre which includes forest, seven miles of unspoiled river, eleven trout ponds, and a 2,200-foot mountain.It is a $28 million dollar bid to preserve the wildlife, fish, and forests in these rugged mountains of the Northeastern United States. 

The Man is none other than Jack Ma, founder and executive chairman of Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba.

 
Jack Ma spent $23 million on the forest, known as Brandon Park.
"This international land purchase reflects Jack's belief that we all inhabit the same planet and we all breathe the same air, so we are dependent on each other for our collective future."

The park comprises more than nine miles of the St. Regis River, several lakes, streams, and a great deal of forestland. It sits in an area of the Adirondacks that is protected by the state of New York

heavy logging and mining work in the late 20th century depleted much of its natural timber and water resources.

About 3 percent of Alibaba's annual profit is used on public welfare and environmental protection policies.
 

Ma, whose net worth is estimated to be as much as $23.9 billion, has made considerable donations to conservation efforts here, helping to create the Sichuan Nature Conservation Foundation and the Laohegou Nature Reserve in Sichuan, Southwest China.

You Won't Believe It

Amid much fanfare, on May 10 Jack Ma stepped down as CEO from Alibaba, the business he built from scratch in his hometown of Hangzhou that is now one of the biggest companies in the world. On the very next day, May 11, he assumed the role of his latest endeavor: to help restore China’s environment by becoming the Chairman of the Board for The Nature Conservancy’s China Program.

 

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Why We People Plant More Trees

As we learned in biology, trees are essential to life. They create the very air we breathe and filter air pollution.

What you may not know is that trees also build soil and help soak up storm water before it can create a flood,
and they offer energy-saving shade that reduces global warming and creates habitat for thousands of different species.

Trees also help to reduce ozone levels in urban areas.

Most importantly, trees sequester carbon, helping to remove carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from the air,
which cools the earth. In fact, a mature canopy tree absorbs enough carbon and releases enough oxygen to sustain two human beings!
The carbon storage capacity of forests is approximately three times as large as the pool of carbon in the atmosphere.

If forests are changed, reduced, or eliminated, the captured carbon goes into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide (CO2).

Despite their importance to life as we know it, humans have cut down half of all the trees on the planet so far.

Every year we cut down over 65,000 square miles of forest worldwide for paper, agriculture, building materials and fuel.

Much of this wouldn’t be necessary if we reduced, reused and recycled more, cultivated hemp for fuel and fiber,
and used sustainable and recycled materials in all our buildings.

But until this changes,
we need to put the trees back any way we can, as fast as we can!



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