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The area of active wildfires in Yakutia is 100 thousand hectares. About it reported Governor of the Republic Aisen Nikolaev.
“Now all forest fires are practically extinguished. If on August 15 the area covered by the then still active fires was 4 million hectares, now it is already a little more than 100 thousand hectares in remote areas “, – said Nikolaev.
According to Avialesokhrana, today there are 27 fires in Yakutia.
In the summer of 2021, forest fires engulfed Russia. By mid-August, according to the Federal Forestry Agency, the total area affected by the natural disaster exceeded 16 million hectares. Yakutia suffered the most.
Direct damage from wildfires only in the region since the beginning of the year exceeded 1 billion rubles. During this time, almost one and a half thousand wildfires have been recorded in the region. The Ministry of Emergency Situations added that most of them are due to dry weather and thunderstorms, and careless handling of fire is also the cause of a fire.
Greenpeace expert Grigory Kuksin told The Insider says that the situation with fires in Russia not only remains grave, but has become worse in recent years, and their main cause is the human factor.
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