Forests as a reasource

• Forgets are big areas that are tightly covered with trees
• Forests can be found all over the world
• Forests provide human beings with lots of natural resources
• Forests cover about 30 percent of Earth's total land area.
• People use the wood from the trees to build

  homes, make furniture and paper and burn

  as firewood.
• Some forests grow naturally

  and others are planted by people. We call

  these forests, plantations.
• A forest is also home to thousands of birds, insects and other animals.
• A forest provides food for people and animals living near it.
• Many natural medicines come from trees found in forests.
• Forests act as the lungs of world by producing oxygen.