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As the man falls asleep, a snake warns that the tree is home to generations of ancestors, while a bee explains the tree’s role in pollination. Other animals link the tree to oxygen, nesting, and survival, emphasizing that destroying forests harms interconnected life and leaves many beings homeless.","The Tree  \nEnglish Environment  \nThe Tree  \nBy Carol Smith  \nAdapted from a story  \nby Lynne Cherry  \nImages by Kate Pedley, MBANJI Bawe Ernest + Susan Rose.  \nEnglish  \nUnited Kingdom  \nCopyright © 2020, SIL Cameroon  \n[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)[ ](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)[You may not use this work for commercial purposes. You may](You may not use this work for commercial purposes. You may)[ ](You may not use this work for commercial purposes. You may)adapt and add to this work, but you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. You must keep the copyright and credits for authors, illustrators, etc.  \nImages on pages Front Cover, 1, 5–6 by Kate Pedley, © 2020 SIL Cameroon. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Images on pages 2–3, 5, 7–9 by MBANJI Bawe Ernest, © 2020 SIL Cameroon. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Images on pages 3–4 by Susan Rose, © 2020 SIL Cameroon. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.  \nThis book is part of the SIL Cameroon Branch Mother Tongue Based Multilingual Education 5th year reading curriculum.  \nThe Tree  \nA man walked into the tropical rainforest. The forest had been alive with the sounds of squawking birds and howling monkeys, but now all was quiet as the animals watched theman and wondered why he had come.  \nThe man took the axe he carried and struck the trunk of the tree. Thud! Thud! Thud! The sounds of the blows rang through the forest. Thud! Thud! Thud! The man wiped off the sweat that ran down his face and neck. Thud! Thud! Thud!  \nSoon the man grew tired. He sat down to rest at the foot of the tree. Before he knew it, the heat and the hum of the forest had sent him to sleep.  \nA snake lived in the tree. He slowly slithered down its trunk to where the man was sleeping. He looked at the gash the axe had made in the tree. Then the snake slid very close to the man and hissed in his ear: “This tree is my home, where generations of my ancestors have lived. Do not chop it down.”  \nA bee buzzed in the sleeping man’s ear: “My hive is in this tree, and I fly from tree to tree and flower to flower collecting pollen. In this way I pollinate the trees and flowers throughout the rainforest. You see, all the living things depend on one another.”  \nA monkey scampered down from the canopy of the tree. She chattered to the sleeping man:“Do you know what we animals and humans need in order to live? Oxygen! And, do you know what trees produce? Oxygen! 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