Question: What made you want to look and study climate change and trees?

Anna Gardner answered on 19 Jun 2019: last edited 19 Jun 2019 5:35 am

Hi there! Great question!
I wanted to study climate change as I really care about wildlife, plants and our natural world (it’s our home!). And I am really worried about how the human race is treating it. There is no planet B, so we all should be doing what we can to help, influence and encourage the care of our planet. I personally want to make a difference, however small or large that may be.
Trees are the single most important thing on Earth, we need them for our survival (they produce all our oxygen.). And so, studying trees is a really important job in this world. I can inform governments on what they should be doing (e.g making laws) and inform countries on their behaviour (e.g stop deforestation). In reality it’s very difficult to influence such large amounts of people and therefore I need the science to back me up. Good data allows me to produce good arguments in a debate which makes sure the politicians cannot make excuses. Science is data and facts and you can’t argue with that 🙂
As there are so many different types of tree in this world (over 60,000 species!) it’s important to understand them better. Then we can see if certain trees are good for different things e.g to plant to help reduce pollution or to use for medicine.