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Study Finds Trees Have Feelings, Make Friends And Look After Each Other Like An Old Couple.

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Trees are scientifically proven to be WAY more intelligent than we ever imagined!

“They can feel pain, [and] have emotions, such as fear. Trees like to stand close together and cuddle. They love company and like to take things slow.”  These are just some of tree-whisperer Peter Wohlleben’s findings. Peter is a German researcher who not only enjoy being surrounded by trees, he has devoted his life to studying them.

“There is in fact friendship among trees,”  he says. “They can form bonds like an old couple, where one looks after the other. Trees have feelings.”

Intelligent Trees is a new documentary is by German forester, author, and tree expert, Peter Wohlleben, along with Suzanne Simard, who is an ecologist from the University of British Columbia. Watch the trailer below to get a glimpse into it.

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“They can form bonds like an old couple, where one looks after the other. Trees have feelings”

“Trees like to stand close together and cuddle. They love company. They can feel pain, [and] have emotions, such as fear”

 

Watch the video. URL:https://vimeo.com/181082721

World’s Oldest Trees Dying At Alarming Rate

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According to a disturbing new report, the world’s oldest and largest trees may be dying off — and fast.
The study determined that trees between 100 and 300 years old are perishing “en masse” because of a deadly combination of large destructive events like forest fires, and other, more incremental factors like drought, high temperatures, logging and insect attack. The steady increase in threats means old trees are dying at 10 times their normal rate, researchers concluded. Their study appears in the Dec. 7 issue of the journal Science.

“It’s a worldwide problem and appears to be happening in most types of forest,” explained lead author David B. Lindenmayer, of Australian National University, in a release. “Large old trees are critical in many natural and human-dominated environments.”

The scientists originally discovered a “very, very disturbing trend” while inspecting Swedish forestry records from the 1860s, then realized forests in Australia, California’s Yosemite National Park, the African Savannah, Brazilian rainforests, and other regions of Europe had also suffered large losses of old trees.

Critically, “Big, old trees are not just enlarged young trees,” Jerry F. Franklin of the University of Washington, another of the study’s authors, told the New York Times. “Old trees have idiosyncratic features — a different canopy, different branch systems, a lot of cavities, thicker bark and more heartwood. They provide a lot more habitat and niches.”

They also capture and store significant amounts of carbon, notes The Telegraph, and recycle surrounding soil nutrients, which in turn encourages new growth.

Scientists warn that unless an urgent “world-wide investigation” can assess the loss and create conservation programs with time-frames that span centuries, the world’s oldest trees are gravely imperiled.

 

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com

 

 

 

 

 

Why You Should Plant More Trees – Research Shows Trees Grow Happier People.

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Trees and nature don’t only provide us with oxygen to breathe, they provide us with peace. According to a review of studies, the number of trees in your neighborhood, along with your proximity to a park, plays a significant role in your mental and physical wellbeing. So it may be time to plant more trees.

Incredible Benefits of Nature and Why You Should Plant More Trees

People who live around trees are generally happier, have healthier relationships and are generally less stressed.

“Nature calms people and it also helps them psychologically rejuvenate,” said Professor Frances Kuo of the University of Illinois. “They are better able to handle challenges which come their way.”

Stress could be one of the largest negatively impacting factors for our health. Exercise and meditation are just an example of how people strive to keep stress levels lower, but as many individuals know, another fabulous solution is surrounding yourself with nature. Walking through the park or sitting in the grass may have effects far more beneficial than having a stiff drink to unwind, for example.

Another study showing why we should plant more trees analyzed morbidity of more than 345,000 people based on records from 195 different physicians spread across the Netherlands and found that individuals with a higher percentage of green space within a 1 km radius in the immediate vicinity of their postal code had a lower prevalence of 15 of 24 disease clusters.

Adults aren’t the only ones reaping the benefits of trees, though. Children diagnosed with ADHD have better behavior and focus after a walk in nature when compared with those who exercised indoors or not at all.

In Japan, a study found that elderly people who lived near a park actually lived longer.

In addition to affecting your stress levels and your overall health, trees may affect your safety.

Research has shown that the more vegetation there is in a neighborhood, the less crime there is. Trees could cut crime by as much as seven percent, said one study.

“It actually encourages people to use the spaces outside their homes, which provides a natural form of surveillance,” says Kuo.

Also, landscaping and general care of the vegetation you do have helps lend a “safe” image to your neighborhood and may keep crime at bay.

In general, trees bring peace. Whether you try to explain it scientifically— perhaps through the oxygen they give off you are taking in some compound with soothing properties— or if it’s more spiritual, the benefits of nature are incredibly positive for your mind, body, and soul. We tear down nature to build and create infrastructure, but with all the trees taken down we should plant more trees for balance.

Make it a goal to spend some time outdoors every single day. Water the flowers around your house; go for a walk, or stop your car at a park on the way home and enjoy the view. Don’t always turn to artificial and manmade solutions for your health and mental wellbeing.

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Source: wakingtimes.com