Wildfires rage in Siberia and Russian Far East
▻http://siberiantimes.com/ecology/others/news/n0674-wildfires-rage-in-siberia-and-russian-far-east
’Forests are burning! Nothing to breath in Bagdarin village!’
Picture: Vkontakte
Warming weather has unleashed a wave of forest fires, with the Republic of Buryatia, and regions TransBaikal and Amur badly hit. In one day alone 10,000 hectares of forest in the Russian Far East was burned down, with dozens of homes lost.
The scale was less than in Canada’s dramatic fires, but is a reminder of the grave threat annually facing many Russian regions. Head of the Federal Forestry Agency Ivan Valentik blames people for much of the carnage.
’99% of all fires in the Amur region, the Trans-Baikal region and Buryatia are caused by people who set fire to grass,’ he said. He warned that the tradition of burning dried grass ahead of the sowing season - popular since Soviet times - is now against the law.
via la @petite_sorciere (pseudo modifié…)
