Question

Make a project report on forest fire. Support it with news items

Answer 1

Alongwith other factors discussed, forest fire is a major cause of

injury and loss to forests. With the population increase, the frequency

and subsequent damage due to forest fire is increasing day by day.

The impact of the fire is diverse on the forest ecosystem. Besides

directly damaging the forest trees, the fire also adversely affects forest

regeneration, microclimate, soil erosion, and wild life etc. In most of the

cases, the forest fire causes retrogression of forest vegetation. Forest fire

is one of the major degenerating factors, which extensively damages

the growing stock and its generations and making area vulnerable to

erosion. It has wide-ranging adverse ecological, economic and social

implications. Globally speaking, forest fires all over the world are

under reported due to various factors. As per the information compiled

in GFRA- 2010, on an average one percent of all forests were reported

to be significantly affected by forest fire each year. However, the areas

affected by fires are severely underreported, with information missing

from many countries.

Forest fires in India are generally ground fires. About 35 million

hectares of forest area is affected by fires annually. About 95 per cent of

the forest fires are caused by human beings, especially to promote new

flush of grasses, collection of minor forest produce or to prepare land

for shifting cultivation. While statistical data on fire loss in India are

very weak, it is estimated that the proportion of the forest areas prone

to forest fire annually ranges from 33% to over 90% in different states.

As per an estimate of the United Nations Development Programme

and Food and Agriculture Organisation project in Maharashtra State,

the economic loss due to forest fire is around Rs. 9000/- per hectare  

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per annum. If multiplied to the total forest cover of the country, this

comes to a very substantial amount. The severity of the problem may

be judged from the forest fire data of the year 1995 and 1999 in the two

States- Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh where forest worth crores

of rupees was turned to ashes during the period

Answer 2

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India, which saw a 46 per cent increase in the number of forest fires in the last 16 years (2003-17), witnessed a 125 per cent spike (from 15,937 to 35,888) in such fires in just two years (2015 to 2017).

In 2017, the maximum number of forest fires were reported in Madhya Pradesh (4,781) followed by Odisha (4,416) and Chhattisgarh (4,373).

In fact, 23 out of 33 states and union territories reported an increase in forest fires. In Punjab, such incidents of fire increased sevenfold followed by Haryana and Rajasthan which saw four and three times a jump in numbers

As much as 64.29 per cent of the Recorded Forest Area (RFA) is prone to fires, said the India State of Forest Report (ISFR) 2015 published by the Forest Survey of India. Out of these, the fire prone areas that fall under heavy fire incidence class are 2.4 per cent, moderate class are 7.49 per cent and mild are 54.4 per cent.

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