European Commission
Last year, an area around twice the size of Luxembourg was burnt in the EU.
It was the fourth worst year since 2000 regarding areas affected by wildfires. This is also due to the single largest fire to occur in Europe since the 1980s.
We call for greater prevention and preparedness via:
🔹 nature-based solutions like vegetation management
🔸 wildfire early warning systems
🔹 the efficient firefighting means that the #EUCivilProtection Mechanism offers.
timthelion
@EU_Commission I'm afraid that vegetation management solutions involving removing undergrowth eliminate habitat for birds, bugs and small animals and harm biodiversity. Is it really impossible for us to protect forests as natural environments?
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
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It is high time to think out of the box and to adopt new practices to prevent forest fires.
Apart from exchanging existing #tree species with more heat and #drought resistent types, as some countries like #Germany are doing, active forest management with preventive #fires to destroy the accumulated undergrowth that tends to become a tinder box is of the essence. Many countries could learn a lot from indigenous...
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
(2/n)
...tribes, such as the #Yurok, #Karuk, #Hupa, #Miwok, and #Chumash in #California:
"For more than 13,000 years...hundreds of...tribes 👉across...the world used small intentional burns to renew local food, medicinal and cultural resources, create habitat for animals, and reduce the risk of larger, more dangerous wild fires."👈
The Spanish conquerors first prohibited this...
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
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...very ancient and sensible tradition, and the #US government later continued to prohibit this necessary practice from 1850 to 1968/78.
"Since then, some state agencies have made prescribed burning a part of their land and wildfire management strategies."
It is high time that the #EU do so across all nations of the #EuropeanUnion and elsewhere.
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