Tree planting involves transplanting seedlings or saplings to a permanent location. It is best done during rainy seasons in the Philippines. Deforestation is the clearing of forests through various means such as agriculture, livestock, and logging, which has negative environmental impacts like loss of habitat, climate change, and soil erosion. Planting trees provides benefits such as oxygen, shelter, climate control, and wood products, so it is important to plant trees now to offset deforestation and environmental problems.

1. TREE FOR
LIFE
BY: RIAN KRISTIA B. SAUSAL
KEZIAH EUNICE M. TAMULA

2. WHAT IS TREE PLANTING?
 According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary tree planting is the process of
transplanting of a seedling or sapling tree to a permanent position.
 Planting a tree is a lifelong investment. How well this investment grows
depends on the type of tree selected and the planting location, the care
provided during planting, and the follow-up care after planting.
https://www.treesaregood.org/treeowner/plantingatree

3. WHEN IS THE BEST SEASON TO PLANT
TREES?
 According to ManilaTimes, the best planting season for
planting trees in the Philippines is on rainy seasons. Rain
provides good opportunity for seedlings to flourish. Newly
planted seedlings fare best when exposed to moderate
temperature and rainfall, for they require time to root and
adapt before the onset of intense heat and dryness of
summer.

4. WHAT IS DEFORESTATION?
 Deforestation is the process of clearing of forests.
 Deforestation is the clearing, destroying, or otherwise removal of trees through
deliberate, natural or accidental means.
 MAJOR CAUSES OF DEFORSETATION
1. Agricultural Expansion
2. Livestock Ranching
3. Logging
4. Infrastructure Expansion
5. Overpopulation
Other Cause(s):
1. Slash and Burn
2. Wildfires

5. EFFECTS OF DEFORESTATION
 Loss of habitat for millions of species.
 Climate Change.
 Increased speed and severity of Global Warming.
 Soil Erosion and Flooding
 Destruction of Homelands
 Increased Greenhouse Gases
 Water Cycle

6. WHY SHOULD WE PLANT TREES?
 We need to plant trees because they are one of the sources in
providing us food and oxygen, second they provide shelter to both
animals and humans, they are one of the factors that control or
balance the processes that is happening to earth and many more.
Without trees our world may be completely destroyed and will be
prone to the negative impacts that we are facing such as global
warming, climate change, calamities and the like.

7. WHY SHOULD WE PLANT TREES?
 Also trees play a vital role on the following:
1. Community and Social Value
-trees create a peaceful, aesthetically pleasing environment, trees provide cool ambience, trees in cities
deflect the sunlight and reduces the heat island effect caused by pavement and commercial buildings.
2. Ecological & Environmental Value
- Trees contribute to their environment by providing oxygen, improving air quality, climate amelioration,
conserving water, preserving soil, and supporting wildlife, trees control climate by moderating the effects of
the sun, rain and wind, both above and below ground, trees are essential to the eco-systems in which they
reside.
3. Personal & Spiritual Value
- The main reason we like trees is because they are both beautiful and majestic, trees help record the
history of your family as they grow and develop alongside you and your kids. In fact, many people plant
trees as living memorials of life-changing events.

8. WHY SHOULD WE PLANT TREES?
4. Practical & Commercial Value
- Trees have supported and sustained life throughout our existence. Wood was the very first fuel, and
is still used for cooking and heating by about half of the world’s population. Trees provide timber for
building construction, furniture manufacture, tools, sporting equipment, and thousands of household
items. Wood pulp is used to make paper.
5. Property Value & Economic Value
- According to the USDA Forest Service, “Trees properly placed around buildings can reduce air
conditioning needs by 30% and save 20-50 percent in energy used for heating.”

10. LETS START TO PLANT!
THE BEST TIME TO PLANT A TREE WAS
20 YEARS AGO, THE SECOND BEST TIME
IS NOW
~CHINESE PROVERB
LET US HELP OUR MOTHER NATURE HAND IN HAND.
PLANT A TREE, PLANT A LIFE!

11. SOURCES:
 https://www.savatree.com/whytrees.html
https://www.treesaregood.org/treeowner/plantingatree
 https://www.manilatimes.net/rainy-season-is-tree-planting-season/287191/
 https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tree%20planting
 https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deforestation
 https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/5-big-causes-of-deforestation-
and-how-you-can-stop-it/
 https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/deforestation/
 https://www.pachamama.org/effects-of-deforestation

12. THANK YOU…