I think this author is a bit disingenuous in his criticism of Peter Wohlleben.

Wohlleben is telling people what they deep down want to hear. The book is a world best seller. His views form part of the "equality" march into madness: he recognises the fact that the West has gone mad, and has cottoned-on to the goldmine it is to go along with it.

Give him some credit. Science has little to do with that madness! Gay marriage?

A tree, any tree is a plant. And stores carbon whether vertical or horizontal.

Throughout all of nature there are symbiotic relationships and for mutual benefit. And only proves survival strategies at the most basic instinctive level.

Yes, we and all life in whatever form, are all made of molecules, which in turn are constructed by various collections of atoms, that in turn are constructs of the application of chained and vibrating energy.

Intelligence is indicated by a measurable thought process. And inherent in all forms of communication.

When you or I think a thought or communicate, there is a transfer of electrical energy through various synapses of the brain. When this no longer occurs. We are said to be brain dead! And strikingly obvious in every plant we grow or harvest and in every forest!

And it would seem in the author and all his mentally defective brother and sisterhood? As they put their lives on the line to save a tree. but won't under any circumstances, pick up a weapon to defend friends, family or neighbours? But can get quite belligerent and violent when opposing logging etc.

Native populations have for millennia, been selectively logging their forests, without harm or negative consequences to flora or fauna. But then their very survival has meant, they need to be guided by logic's rites and rational decisions!

Imagine, if all the native peoples the world over had adopted this loony tune approach? Our species would have long disappeared off the face of the planet! As the trees marked our passing by feasting on the nutrients our rotting corpses would have provided!
Alan B.

"trees marked our passing by feasting on the nutrients"
Gum trees have a terrorist reputation dropping branches on victims for nutrient feasting. Ever wondered why camp fire smoke always stalks you ?

Wouldn't it be wonderful if all human beings were actually sentient animals, rather than clowns full of these crazy ideas, or empty vessels able to be filled with this sort of rubbish by the crazies?

Wooden ships such as a naval man o war with male name is a "she".
That's OK but steel ships being "she" is crazy.
"Surprise: HMS Prince of Wales is not only afloat, she now also has HV power". Next it'll be the Harbour Bridge , then trains then mobiles.

Speaking of trees, the natural world altogether, and the collective psychotic madness of dreadfully sane Western man why not check out these references.
http://www.dabase.org/trees.htm

http://sacredforests.earth/page-7/plants-and-grass

http://fearnomore.vision/non-human/the-non-humans-are-still-sane

The last references is an excerpt from this talk/essay

http://www.beezone.com/da_publications/spacetim.html

This essay describes and criticizes the all-encompassing cultural consequences of our dreadful (psychotic) sanity too:

http://www.aboutadidam.org/readings/bridge_to_god/index.html