SOS - Save our Soils Soils is essential for life. It's name came from Hebrew word "Adâmah", the origin from Adam, the first man. Because of its two main functions, biological and nutrition, we live in permanent interdependence. We feed by plants and animals and they breath, eat and drink what comes from the soil. As a non-renewable resource, soil needs several time to form a soil layer, around 3 000 and 12 000 years and we can't wait so long. Humanity have suffering the effects of excessive activities like deforestation and erosion and the currently situation is our responsible. We cannot forget the soil is the root of humanity. (1) "Save our soils!" by France Bequette in the UNESCO courier, June 1997 (2) "Regars sur le sol" Allain Ruellan (3) "picture: Amazon rain forest deforestation - Brasil"