Plants are part of nature, part of the ecological system of planet Earth. Each plant is a value that makes up the eco-chain of the globe. If at least one of its links disappears, the fragile natural balance in the balance system (food, raw materials, climate) of the universe will be disturbed. That is why it is necessary to protect and protect wild plants from complete or partial extinction.
Diversity of wild plants
Wild plants are classified into:
- trees;
- shrubs;
- herbs.
More than 350 thousand various plants are known, from the simplest unicellular to giant trees. They grow not only in forests and steppes, but inhabit the world's waters, live in the inaccessible depths of the oceans and seas, in hot deserts and on rocky cliffs, even, it would seem, in the glaciers of Antarctica unsuitable for life.
Value of the flora of the wild nature
From early childhood in kindergartens, then - in schools and universitieswe are instilled with love for nature and explained why it is necessary to protect and preserve wild plants.
First of all, plants are the main food for animals and humans. Amino acids, vitamins, proteins, that is, everything that is required for their vital activity, contains green representatives of the flora.
Destroying the flora, humanity is on the path of self-destruction. Why? It is necessary to protect and protect wild plants because oxygen, which is vital for people and animals, is formed as a result of photosynthesis in plant cells. A particularly large amount of this air component is emitted by forests - the lungs of planet Earth.
Walking through the woods or hiking in the mountains is a wonderful form of relaxation. Green color has a calming effect on the human nervous system, and oxygen-enriched air is beneficial.
Cotton and linen are used to produce natural fabrics, wood is used to make furniture, paper, to build houses, etc.
Almost all representatives of the plant world - both edible and poisonous - can be used to make medicines that save the lives of many people.
The use of the gifts of flora in almost all spheres of human life clearly demonstrates why it is necessary to protect and preserve wild plants.
Preserve the richness of flora for future generations
Tourists, casual and regular visitors to the forest uproot, trample, actually barbarously exterminate rare and even endangered flowers -snowdrops, orchids, crocuses, edelweiss, lilies of the valley, adonis. Deforestation, uncontrolled collection of medicinal plants, plowing of virgin lands for fields - all this brings irreparable harm not only to the local ecosystem, but also to the plant world as a whole, since the big consists of the small.
Why should wild plants be protected? So that the next generation can admire the green-flowery expanse of meadows, shaggy mast firs and cedars, an abundance of mushrooms in rainy autumn, so that the species composition of the animal world and the climatic component of even the smallest, but essential place on our planet do not change. To do this, rare and endangered plants are taken under protection at the state and international level, listed in the Red Book, artificially restored populations in botanical gardens.
