Wildfires

Russia

The world’s largest forest - Siberian Taiga has been on fire for most of 2019 causing 130,000 sq/km of land and forest to be burnt. This is causing detrimental effect on Indigenous groups who rely on the forest for their livelihood. An estimated 33-90% of the forests have been destroyed. The blame for these fires can mostly be placed on large extractive industries like logging companies which export to China who burn waste to get rid of it quickly and these small fires often rapidly turn into vast forest fires.

Greenland/Kalaallit Nunaat

Unprecedented dry stretches and heatwaves are causing extreme wildfires in Greenland. The land underneath the forests is peat which is also flammable causing the fires to become twice as bad. The peat which burns also releases CO2 into the atmosphere, thus impacting on global warming. The Arctic wildfires are at a tipping point, as climate change gets worse the fires become even more likely, leading to more CO2 release and goes on the vicious cycle.

Sápmi

2018 was a record breaking hot and dry year in Sápmi as well as rest of Europe. As a results, the summer of 2018 saw several wildfires in the region. In Norway, Sweden and Finland alone, 24 450 hectares of forests was burnt and hundreds of people had to be evacuated. The raging of wildfires affected, amongst others, reindeer herders which´s herding ground were burnt. With rising annual temperatures in Sápmi, wildfires are expected to be a growing problem in the future.

How you can help

Sign this petition to stop deforestation in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)m Northeastern Siberia:

⁠

Loading chng.it⁠

⁠

Sign this petition to stop logging in Russia:

⁠

Loading www.change.org⁠

Want to print your doc?
This is not the way.

Try clicking the ⋯ next to your doc name or using a keyboard shortcut (

CtrlP

) instead.