“Unfortunately, the data show that in the last four decades (1980-2020) more than 18 million acres of forest area of our country have been burned, with incalculable consequences, which include destruction of settlements and infrastructure, as well as loss of human lives.” This is stated in a statement by Hellenic Society for the Protection of Nature (EEPF) on the occasion of today World Forestry Day – “a day that marks the beginning of spring but also a day that also marks our responsibility as a society to be vigilant and take the necessary precautionary measures to deal with catastrophic forest fires.”
As the EEPF characteristically states, “this important degradation of natural environmenthighlights the need to implement and respect the two basic principles of environmental law, which relate to prevention and precaution “.
“These principles are related to the prevention of such catastrophic events, while at the same time making urgent the need to restore the physical condition of the affected areas. The issue of deterrence is left more to the adoption of an appropriate state policy / strategy in order to upgrade the civil protection in cooperation with all local, mainly, bodies, but also to the implementation of policies related to two other, equally important, principles of law. environment related to information and information, therefore education and awareness at all levels, of the ordinary citizen “, he emphasizes.
In fact, the Hellenic Society for the Protection of Nature points out that: “We live in an age of intense environmental incidents, including fires with increasing frequency and intensity. “Evidence, studies and international experience show that prevention measures are crucial to the effectiveness of their repression.”
“The fact that fires are becoming more difficult to deal with and their destructiveness is increasing may be due to a number of reasons, such as the longer periods of drought attributed to climate change, the increase in the quantity and continuity of biomass due to reduced forest management and rural in general, the construction of houses in contact with forest vegetation, etc. ” indicated in the notice.
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