Email: alx_jones@yahoo.com.au Home About Us Campaign History Photos Habitat Read More Sign Our Petition   Click the red button to sign the new 2021 petition calling for a Royal Commission on Pesticides Regulation Failure. We need all levels of government to acknowledge the unacceptable harm from toxic and polluting pesticides.   Home   Welcome to Save Our Trees, the website that has been created to push the issue to our local and state authorities that we want them to stop their destructive tree-removal and herbicide-use policies. We are also trying to raise public awareness of the risks to our health and to the natural environment posed by both of these practices. Over recent years thousands of mature trees have been removed from our streets and parks for various reasons. Sadly, thousands more were poisoned. There are concerns that herbicides and pesticides have links to life-threatening cancers and neurological diseases and that they are also detrimental to native vegetation. Trees are natures CO2 sequestration machines and provide us with oxygen and shade. Their shady canopies and leaf litter protect the soil from exposure to the sun and help to retain moisture in the ground. Tree- removal is known to promote drought and local climate change.     Residents' letters of complaints about pesticide use in their area - READ MORE Shady canopies also provide pleasant streetscapes for people when out walking in their neighbourhood. Some of our suburbs have had many of these shade -bearing trees ruthlessly removed and residents' must now walk in hot, barren streets. Where are birds supposed to go when trees suddenly disappear? The natural environment provides precious habitat for our urban wildlife. These practices are environmentally unsound for many reasons and are contrary to current Climate Change initiatives to reduce Greenhouse gases because they damage the vegetation that we desperately need to absorb CO2 and protect our soils. We invite you to put an end to these practices by questioning your state or local authorities. Write to them and ask them to exercise the Precautionary Principle and stop these unnecessary and widespread practices. Will they stop putting at risk our health and the health of our environment? Sign our new PETITION and return it to SaveOurTrees.net   © 2008 Save our Trees Terms of Access Acknowledgements