The world's forests are still severely affected by the fires.Now people do not burn the forest to sow a new field.But a growing number of "nature lovers", who thoughtlessly or unknowingly cause numerous fires in the forest.Ineptly divorced or not completely extinguished the fire (often in places where it is strictly forbidden), a burning cigarette butt thrown on parched forest floor - that's you and the fire.
Shard glass bottle thrown somewhere in a well sunlit forest glade, focusing the sun's rays, works like a magnifying glass.Puffed dry grass and then destroyed several million tons of organic substances which are carried into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide.
World statistics show that ninety-seven percent of forest fires is the fault of the person;three percent are due to lightning, mainly ball.
can cause horrific example forest protection services in Siberia in less than a day managed to repay about fifty fires on the total area of four thousand acres, but because of the fire and the proliferation of new centers of the situation has not changed, but rather was exacerbated - in the Siberian district burned about seventeen thousandhectares.And it is only in central Russia.Throughout the country, a day the number of forest fires can reach two hundred hearths.What is already talking about the scale of the entire planet.
One of the largest forest fires, known in history, broke out in 1915 in the same Siberian taiga.Woods then burned in the square equal to the former Czechoslovakia about 128 thousand square kilometers.The smoke spread to the territory equal to half of Europe.He held on for so long that in some places due to lack of sunlight delayed ripening wheat.
Forests not only the lungs of our planet, and not just a giant factory of oxygen (shown in the woods in the air a lot more oxygen and nitrogen is much less than in the city), but everything else is stored water and soil.In winter the ground freezes in the woods at a very shallow depth, and even completely remains frozen.The snow there is smooth, pristine white carpet - wind inflates snowdrifts.In the shade of the tree crowns, the snow melts in the forest is much slower than in open areas.The water in this melting occurs to torrents, and slowly seeps deep into the soil, they accumulate in it.That's why the river, on the banks of overgrowing woods, there are deep and summer.Wood moisture returns them immediately, one stormy spring flood, wash often fertile soil or worse, entire villages or village, but gradually.That is why now forbidden to cut trees along the river banks.
Protect the forest from fire, and he will save you!
