Not completely accurate I'm afraid, M.C. The survey found that there are approximately 3 trillion trees in the world which is far more than was previously thought. The bad news is that we've lost about half the world's trees since the start of human civilisation, and we're currently losing 10 billion every year. Let's get planting some more!

Thanks for your comments Steve, Stu and Cynthia.

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A very recent Google survey tells us that there are more
trees than ever before. A short reassurance that these
premier gifts from nature still stand in the defence of our
world.

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Tim, I'll get back to this - I love 'list' poems.

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this is fantastic. i really like reading your work. this reminds me of The Top 10 Luminous Mushrooms of Cerdanya Forest by Billy Ramsell in that it presents a nature themed list in a really well written, poetic way.

http://poetrysociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1053-Ramsell.pdf

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Number 18 made me splutter on my morning cuppa, Tim. Nice work!

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It's looking like a dark day for Britain, and for the world in general, so I'm posting one of the more optimistic poems from my pamphlet today.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Speak-Unspeakable-words-overheating-world/dp/1519178085/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1449090182&sr=1-1&keywords=speak+the+unspeakable

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