While focus has slowly grown on the fires ravaging the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, it has emerged an even greater number of fires are currently burning in central Africa.
Data from Nasa’s Fire Information for Resource Management System, showed at least 6,902 fires in Angolaand 3,395 burning in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
While focus has slowly grown on the fires ravaging the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, it has emerged an even greater number of fires are currently burning in central Africa.
Data from Nasa’s Fire Information for Resource Management System, showed at least 6,902 fires in Angolaand 3,395 burning in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The same data put Brazil’s fires at 2,127.
The huge surge in fires in the Amazon this year has caused global concern. The rainforest stores enormous amounts of carbon in the complex ecosystem, it is the most biodiverse land area on earth, and its conservation is essential if we are to limit the impacts of global heating.
In Africa however, the extent of the fires affecting forested areas is unclear. In agricultural areas purpose-lit fires have been a common part of farming techniques for thousands of years.
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