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A recent report has stated that the probability of wildfire events similar to Australia’s 2019-2020 Black Summer will increase by 31-57 per cent in the future. If India’s forest fire season this year is any indication, we are already there. There have been fires in Rajasthan’ Sariska Tiger Reserve, Odisha’s Similipal Wildlife Sanctuary, Madhya Pradesh’s Ladkui jungles in Sehore district and the forest areas of the Majhgawan region of Satna district and the Perimalmalai Peak near the Kodaikanal hills of Tamil Nadu’s Dindigul district before the end of March, 2022. There were around 340 (by 4 pm) incidences of fires on the last day of March, with 1,141 large forest fires (LFF) continuing for the last seven-eight days according to the Forest Survey of India (FSI). There were 136,604 fire points in the country from January 1 to March 31, 2022. The report, Spreading like Wildfire: The Rising Threat of Extraordinary Landscape Fires, prepared by the United Nations Environmental Programme, has sounded the alarm on wildfires. “Fire is changing because we are changing the conditions in which it occurs,” the report, released February 28, 2022, said.
Source:downtoearth.org
