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New species, fragmentation of massifs, help with acclimatization… The action plan to protect forest cover.
Brittany. The fire that occurred in the Brocéliande forest (Morbihan), on August 12, destroyed 400 hectares.
By Geraldine Woessner
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LThe data surprised researchers around the world. Ravaged three years ago by megafires that destroyed 15% of the country’s forest area, the Australian forest, just one year later, had recovered all its biomass and reabsorbed all of the 200 million tons of carbon released at that time in the atmosphere. Incredibly fast resilience, measured in a study conducted by French researchers from Inrae (National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment) and CEA (Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission) using satellite images to estimate the volume of biomass. “The year after the fires was particularly wet, which encouraged regrowth of vegetation…
MATHIEU PATTIER/SIPA – Neal Herbert/Doi/ZUMA Press/REA – Matthew Abbott/PANOS-REA
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