@EU_Commission

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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 species with more heat and resistent types, as some countries like are doing, active forest management with preventive to destroy the accumulated undergrowth that tends to become a tinder box is of the essence. Many countries could learn a lot from indigenous...

theguardian.com/us-news/2019/n

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@EU_Commission

#ClimateCrisis #ForestFires

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...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...

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