15 Years to Restore Italy’s Forests after Wildfires
Italian forests destroyed in wildfires this summer will take at least 15 years to regrow, according to the national farmers’ association.
Some 141,000 hectares of woodland have burned down in 2017 so far, a dramatic increase of 316 percent compared to the average over the past nine years. The destruction is costing Italy not only trees but plants, animals, traditional industries and a means of absorbing some of the carbon dioxide that causes climate change.
A long, rainless summer this year dried out much of Italy and left countryside from Piedmont to Sicily exceptionally vulnerable to wildfires.
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