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Fires in Gironde: an uncertain but potentially heavy ecological toll

2022-07-24T16:30:42.464Z


DECRYPTION - Biodiversity has been heavily impacted in the areas affected by the fire. If it is still too early to draw definitive conclusions, the results of the fires in Gironde promise to be bad for biodiversity. “ We are currently thinking about how we will be able to build this assessment , explains Didier Alard, director of the regional wildlife observatory (Fauna unit) at the University of Bordeaux. First by gathering all the available data to establish an initial inventory,


If it is still too early to draw definitive conclusions, the results of the fires in Gironde promise to be bad for biodiversity.

We are currently thinking about how we will be able to build this assessment

, explains Didier Alard, director of the regional wildlife observatory (Fauna unit) at the University of Bordeaux.

First by gathering all the available data to establish an initial inventory, before the fires

”.

The areas affected by the two fires are very different.

In Landiras, it is essentially maritime pine crops.

"These pine forests are planted by man and do not have a very diverse genetic heritage",

unlike natural or semi-natural forests, explains Aurélien Caillon, independent botanist at the head of the auto-entreprise Sauvages.

The fire nevertheless spread over such surfaces that it engulfed environments potentially much richer in biodiversity.

“In particular, there is…

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Source: lefigaro

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