# Impact of forest fires on wildlife: protection and protection measures.

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**Published on:** 2024-07-04
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@trinakriabit/impact-of-forest-fires-on-wildlife-protection-and-protection-measures

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Forest fires are fires that, naturally or by human actions, spread uncontrollably, burning up, in some cases, considerable wooded surfaces. Fires that occur within urban areas, even if they affect tree masses, have been excluded from this definition. Forest fires have had a great importance throughout the history of the Iberian peninsula, being one of the main dynamics that govern the ecology of its plant systems. Currently, this situation has undergone a change according to the vision of man, an aspect that has increased with the recent policies of conservation of the natural environment that consider this phenomenon as disastrous and try to avoid it at all costs. From the point of view of fauna, fire is one of the most important conditions that affect the persecution and conservation of anthropogenic communities, since the human spirit recognized fire before the evolution of man in the biological sense. Apart from being considered as a necessary and beneficial companion, his dominion or supremacy has changed our perception of mism in a context of urban metabolism. Lastly, the incident in the natural landscape was welded with a complete persecution that led to the marries, barbeques and young men. Forest fires have occurred, are and will surely continue, being, at least in the near future, one of the most serious troubles for the forests and forests of the whole world. The risk of forest fires is, in general, recognised, but we must recognize that the approach to this issue in environmental policies is not entirely adequate. Usually, the organizations responsible for the protection of nature and, fundamentally, for protected natural spaces, have considered forest fires more as an enemy to fight than as a natural challenge necessary to maintain the ecological balance. Forest fires represent a combination of different systems designed to prevent them, therefore, right now, they interfere and alter forestry processes by reducing the biodiversity of the forest, degrading the soil, reducing the quality of the water, changing the hydrological cycle, reducing the content of nutrients, releasing carbon dioxide - a winter-effect gas, damaging the fauna and damaging the landscape value of the mountains. The different fauna normally changes rapidly on its journeys of life, it can escape from the fire and find a place for refuge, food and shelter in other areas, overcoming the deadly effect of the fire, as is the case of the aves, or adapting to the new ecosystem that appears place of the fire. However, a centralized focus on species (clave actors) or functional groups reveals that some species whose escape strategy is very specific or not directly related are more likely to be exposed to fires. What happens with these species? Forest fires have become a growing social problem at a global level, becoming one of the main disturbances of terrestrial ecosystems, with an increasing gradient in terms of their extent and frequency. The impacts of forest fires on an environmental and social level are inconceivable, both due to the enormous economic costs that they cause in the affected countries, as well as due to the effects that directly or indirectly affect forest ecosystems, the fauna that inhabits them and socio-economic and personal processes of the affected populations.

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