Nothing will change. It will just be more vulnerable to Cuts and Other damage
It would be a log.
Birch bark is not a living organism, however the birch tree, where birch bark comes from, is.
Sounds like a Eucalyptus.
bees eating birch bark
Bark covers a tree trunk.
The Silver Birch Tree. The beech Fagus sylvatica also has silver grey bark but is much bigger than the birch.
The tree will die.
i believe they made them out of birch bark from the birch bark tree.
birch
There really isn't much you can do if the bark has been damaged. If the trunk is not girdled all the way around, the tree should live. Otherwise there really isn't anything you can do to prevent part or all of the tree from dying.
silver birch
A black birch is a tree of the species Betula lenta, with a dark bark resembling that of a cherry tree.