Last Wilderness Foundation's, Fire Awareness Program, which has been conducted every year ahead of the fire season in Panna, Kanha and now in Kuno landscape has shown a drastic decline in forest fire incidents across these landscape.
As, most forest fires are human made, the foremost way to reduce is to make aware the communities that mostly unknowingly set these wild fires. This song is one of the many tools used to make people aware of the harmful effects of forest fire. How it affects each any one dependent on these forest for their survival - the wild animal and humans alike.
Forest fires are a regular phenomenon in our country often observed during summers. A number of 52,785 forest fires were detected using MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectro-radiometer) sensor and 3,45,989 forest fires were detected using SNPP-VIIRS (Suomi-National Polar-orbiting Partnership - Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite)in forest fire season from Nov 2020 to June 2021. Severe fires occur in many forest types particularly dry deciduous forest, while evergreen, semi-evergreen and montane temperate forests are comparatively less prone (ISFR 2015). More than 36% of the country’s forest cover has been estimated to be prone to frequent forest fires. Nearly 4 % of the country’s forest cover is extremely prone to fire, whereas 6% of forest cover is found to be very highly fire prone (ISFR 2019) . Every year large areas of forests are affected by fires of varying intensity and extent. Based on the forest inventory records, 54.40% of forests in India are exposed to occasional fires, 7.49% to moderately frequent fires and 2.40% to high incidence levels while 35.71% of India’s forests have not yet been exposed to fires of any real significance. Precious forest resources including carbon locked in the biomass is lost due to forest fires every year, which adversely impact the flow of goods and services from forests. Source: fsi.nic.in/forest-fire-activi...
Song and Music by Swar Sangam Group, Panna
Singers: Munna Adarsh and Meena Bharti
Dholak: Ramsukh Bhaiya
Video: Kaustav Patel
Photograph and Video Footage Credit:
Arpit Parekh
Hans Dalal
Vidya Venkatesh
Gaurav Shirodkar
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