Every year the earth loses a significant amount of forest cover through deforestation, dam constructions, farming and agriculture, mining or any other industrial development. Along with forests, a lot of flora, fauna and wildlife is at stake as well as most animals lose forest covers and migrate or get displaced in order to find home againBut efforts in conservation make all the difference to lost forests and their animals and we have one example in maintaining those efforts, right here. Way back in 1994, a Brazilian photojournalist, Sebastião Salgado, returned from rwanda, East Africa, where he was capturing the horrors of the genocide. Soon, he was returning home from there, hoping he'd get to spend some time at home, with the lush green forests that surround it, in Minas Gerais area of brazil. But unfortunately, he didn't find what he had expected. He came home to a dusty and damaged landscape, dried up rivers, no trees or any greenery to support the landscape, and all the wildlife was certainly gone. Salgado was devastated and surprised to find the land covered in 0.5% of trees, which is next to nothing.

magine you live in an area which is beautiful and nourishing green. It becomes a part of your life. You wake up with the sounds of birds chirping and peacocks strumming their hefty tunes, welcoming the mornings. Then one day you decide to go away to say study or work elsewhere. But home is home, so you have to go back sometime. And when you're back, the trees, the peacocks, the greenery is all wiped out, because the pollution and the toxic air didn't let anything else breathe. It's a feeling of losing an entire home and that's exactly how Sebastião Salgado was feeling. The reason I asked you to imagine his situation is because he did something to revive what he had lost, much like what you and I can do, for losing trees and forest covers around our surroundings.