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Tree of music! The woodlands once stretched from Senegal
to Ethiopia and South Africa, but now occur
I am not only adorned by mostly in Tanzania and Mozambique.
beautiful little, white, sweet
smelling flowers but I am also
truly a tree of music because
humans make music instruments
from my durable blackwood.
I am also an important part of
my ecosystem as I make the soil
fertile, my roots stabilize the soil
further, and my fallen leaves
make fodder for herbivores.

Bye bye mpingo?

Humans cut many trees from my family to make
medicines, wood carvings, tomb artefacts, utensils, and
musical instruments like clarinets, pipes, and oboes.
Many of our young die in bushfires too. If humans keep
killing my family, we will be extinct soon.

Give me hope TwahnoedoAdwfoorfioccdahnwobiicnleadcfkoinwrscotarourdvmiinsegnthtse. THRENAETEANR EN

The African Blackwood Conservation Did you VU
Project, founded in 1996, has been know?
replanting trees in areas where my ED
family has disappeared. The Fauna Russian company
and Flora International has Gresso used African NT
helped my family with its blackwood along with
Global Trees Campaign. gold to make the casing
The important thing is of luxury cellphones.
that if trees are cut, then
they should be replanted
too, so that we don’t
disappear from the planet.
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