FIRES 🇪🇸: NEITHER ARSONISTS NOR CLIMATE CHANGE ❌
Neither arsonists nor climate change....! ❌
The real problem lies in the accumulation of biomass: our forests are full of fuel because large herbivores and extensive livestock farming have disappeared.
The solution is not more firebreaks or more brigades, but rather restoring the ecological role of herbivores: either through extensive livestock farming or rewilding projects that include bison, horses, fighting bulls, and feral donkeys.
Spain, with almost 85% of its land area in hunting reserves, has a unique opportunity to lead this change.
My academic article (2024):
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1...
My video: Can hunting be ethical? (2019):
• ¿Puede ser ÉTICA la CAZA?
Video "FIRES: Why FORESTS ARE BURNING in SPAIN and what we can do" (2022):
• INCENDIOS: Por qué ARDEN los BOSQUES en ES...
Some of the sources consulted:
Marcos Rodrigues, Àngel Cunill Camprubí, et al. (2023) Drivers and implications of the extreme 2022 wildfire season in Southwest Europe, Science of the Total Environment, Volume 859, Part 2
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2...
Artemisan Foundation. (n.d.). Questions and answers about hunting in Spain. Retrieved from https://fundacionartemisan.com/invest...
Jaraysedal. (2021). 85% of Spain is hunting ground. Jara y Sedal Journal. Retrieved from https://revistajaraysedal.es/85-por-c...
MAPA – Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. (2022). Yearbook of Forest Statistics. Government of Spain.
San-Miguel-Ayanz, J., Durrant, T., Boca, R., Maianti, P., Libertà, G., Artés Vivancos, T., ... & Oom, D. (2022). Forest Fires in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa 2021. Publications Office of the European Union.
Tedim, F., Leone, V., Amraoui, M., Bouillon, C., Coughlan, M. R., Delogu, G. M., ... & Xanthopoulos, G. (2018). Defining extreme wildfire events: Difficulties, challenges, and impacts. Fire, 1(1), 9. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire1010009