A new report finds wildfires are disproportionately impacting Indigenous communities in Canada.
Canadian wildfires are disproportionately affecting Indigenous people at a greater rate than non-Indigenous Canadians, a recent report finds.
“Many Indigenous communities are often remote and have one road in and one road out, and sometimes only fly-in access to those communities when an event happens,” she said. Christianson also mentioned oftentimes these communities are located near fire-dependent forests such as the boreal forests, which need natural fires to stay healthy.
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