{"id":178869,"date":"2022-04-12T19:56:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T14:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=178869"},"modified":"2022-04-12T19:56:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T14:26:11","slug":"forest-fires-frequency-intensity-went-up-in-past-2-decades-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/forest-fires-frequency-intensity-went-up-in-past-2-decades-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest fires frequency, intensity went up in past 2 decades: study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n

Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) has released a study titled \u2018Managing Forest Fires in a Changing Climate\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

What are the key findings of the study?<\/b><\/h5>\n
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Source: CEEW<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Increase in Forest Fires: <\/b>There has been a ten-fold increase in forest fires in the past two decades, and more than 62% of Indian states are prone to high-intensity forest fires.<\/span><\/p>\n

States Prone to Forest Fires<\/b>: Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Maharashtra are the most prone to high-intensity forest fire events caused by rapid changes in the climate.<\/span><\/p>\n

State with the highest number of forest fire incidences<\/b>: Mizoram has had the highest number of forest fire incidences in the last two decades, with more than 95% of its districts being forest fire hotspots.<\/span><\/p>\n

Extreme Forest Fire Hotspots:<\/b> More than 75 % of Indian districts are extreme climate event hotspots, and more than 30 % of districts are extreme forest fire hotspots.<\/span><\/p>\n

Northeastern Region(NER):<\/b> Most of the NER are also witnessing an increased frequency of forest fire incidences in recent decades.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prolonged Period of Forest Fire Incidences<\/b>: The duration that forest fires could take place was two to three months earlier, but it is now nearly six months.<\/span><\/p>\n

What are the recommendations given by the study?<\/b><\/h5>\n

Recognise Forest Fire as a Disaster:<\/b> Forest fires should be treated as \u201cnatural disasters\u201d and be brought under the National Disaster Management Authority. Moreover, by designating forest fires as natural disasters, there will also be a financial allotment made to manage them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Develop Forest Fire Alert system:<\/b> A forest fire only alert system needs to be developed that can provide real-time impact-based alerts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Enhance <\/b>adaptive capacity<\/b>: <\/b>Capacity-building initiatives targeted at district administrations and forest-dependent communities can avert the extent of loss and damage due to forest fires. For <\/span>example, <\/span>Training on high technology-focused equipment (like drones) and nature-based modules (e.g. creating effective forest fire lines) can effectively mitigate the spread of forest fires.<\/span><\/p>\n

Provide Clean Air Shelters<\/b>: The state government\/ state forest departments (SFDs) should repurpose public buildings like government schools and community halls by fitting them with clean air solutions – like air filters – to create clean air shelters for communities worst impacted by fires and smoke from forest fires.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article <\/span>\u201c<\/b>Forest fires frequency, intensity went up in past 2 decades: study<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in<\/span> Indian Express <\/b>on 8th April 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is the News? Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) has released a study titled \u2018Managing Forest Fires in a Changing Climate\u2019. What are the key findings of the study? Increase in Forest Fires: There has been a ten-fold increase in forest fires in the past two decades, and more than 62% of Indian… Continue reading Forest fires frequency, intensity went up in past 2 decades: study<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1305,7965,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-178869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-index-reports-bodies","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700654566},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}