The UN wants countries to invest more in fire risk reduction and collaborate with local communities. Along with these recommendations, the report said, there needs to be a stronger commitment to fight climate change — everywhere.
found that, from 2001 to 2021, more than 25.4 million acres of the Amazon rainforest were degraded by fires.
Biodiversity is under threat everywhere, but especially in the world’s poorest countries, which are often missing needed conservation or fire prevention measures. Also, wildfires can destroy critical infrastructure that humans need to survive. For example, fires contaminate bodies of water used for drinking with sediments, algae-promoting nutrients, and heavy metals.have found that the burning of forests can create and release a bevy of potentially toxic chemicals.
After a fire has burned out, the danger has not necessarily passed. Health hazards like respiratory and cardiovascular illness rise, particularly in the most vulnerable among us. Mental health plummets as people try to recover from the terrifying event. People living in poverty may not be able to rebuild the homes or lives they had before the catastrophe, leading to stress and anger.
“With an impact that extends for days, weeks and even years after the flames subside, they impede progress towards the UN As the world faces intensifying heat and droughts that lead to more intense wildfires, wildfires release large amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. It’s a terrible, worsening cycle.
“Wildfires have been a part of the Earth’s ecosystem since there was plant material to burn,” Stuart Blanch, a conservation policy manager at the World Wildlife Fund-Australia,NBC News in 2020. “We’re all adapted to a certain amount of disturbance. I can get a certain number of colds per year and be OK, but if I’m sick for eight months in a row, that’s really going to wear on me. That’s the same thing with an ecosystem.
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