IT WAS MY TREE

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 By Juliana Markus Kwada



The importance of tree in our lives can not be over emphasize. Trees help us to grow a good health, sound economy and protect us from the challenges of climate change and dessert encroachment. 

Millions of trees are being fallen every day for human use like cooking or furnisher designs among others. By this growing demand trees are fallen with a replacement. Even though, most of the perpetrators are aware on the slogan CUT ONE PLANT THREE yet they ignore and continue to wrong this generation and next. 

Few months ago I visited a friend in Mubi, Adamawa state, as I awaits her to welcome me with drinking water I had a conversation her neighbor was having with some one from her village from all indication it was a long conversation between friends who have not mate quite sometime. What I picked from their  gist was that the big tree at center of their village has fallen after 50 years. 

The neighbor said ayya it was my grand father that planted the tree. At last it has joined the ancestors. Both of them were not please with what happened. 

Later I decided to pay my friends neighbor a visit, I greeted her kawa how are you she answered fine. After a little conversation I sympathize with her on the incident of the fallen tree. She was shocked and wondered how did I know about it I explained how I got to know. I even told her on how big neam tree we used to enjoy at our farm was cut down by my brothers who want to make money.As an advocate of the environment I was not happy with their actions and I have to report them to father who directed them to plant three trees each at the farm. 

The neam tree was my joy and even my moral booster. I enjoyed the shade it was easy for me to climb, we play with my younger ones and children of the neighbors all around the tree. In fact the tree was part of our lives. That is why I called it my tree 

 

Trees help us a lot as human beings. It is proven beyond doubt that indiscriminate fallen of trees is among the major causes of challenges we are having globally. It high time to act right to protect the trees so that they can protect us too. Remember if you cut one plant three. 

   

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