Human and environmental health benefits of forests: impetus for greening the future
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Forests and trees provide wealth of ecosystem services that help in creating healthy living for human and environments by restoring degraded ecosystems. Forests are significant storehouses of medicinal compounds used in the production of drugs from wild organisms used for health purposes. In this reviewed paper, highlights were made on the health benefits of the forests. Human psychological disorder treatment, pharmaceutical benefits, traditional medicine practices for human health, regulation of infectious diseases by forest and forest as source of food for healthy living were discussed. Also, the synergy between environment and human health consequent on the forests were highlighted. These include: forests as antidote to air pollution, purification of ground water, panaceas to noise pollution control and the role of forest as means of mitigating the upsurge in global temperature and attended human health challenges were brought to light. It was postulated that if forests play such indispensable role in human and environmental health and are conserved, it would serve as impetus for future greening of the environment. It was concluded that sensitization of conservation of wild and urban forests among forest stakeholders should be encouraged to foster future greening of renewable forest.
Keywords: Forest, health, environment, greening, tree, medicine
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