News Headline
When forests are not forests at all, can fire be used to better manage them?
Source
Mongabay (India)
Publication Date
2019-03-13
In the last week of February, Bandipur Tiger Reserve lost over 60 square kilometres of forest to a massive fire, despite the best efforts of hundreds of people who tried to put it out. The incident was widely covered in the news, with sensational pictures of supposedly charred animals, grabbing everyone’s attention. The loss of forest land was lamented as irretrievable and devastating.