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How Damaging are the Forest Fires for the Environment?

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  Click on the link to watch complete video on You Tube:   https://youtu.be/MoVVfqXvEIc The recent fires in australia were caused due to extreme temperature and draught,  11 million hectares (110,000 sq km or 27.2 million acres) of bush, forest and parks across Australia has burned. The  fires  in the  Amazon  region in 2019 were unprecedented in their destruction. Thousands of  fires  had burned more than 7,600 square kilometres by October that year.Yet the degradation of the  Amazon rainforest  has profound consequences from climate change to global health. Forest Fires, are common and rampant during summers. There are many wrong notions and misunderstandings amongst the villagers regarding the fires. Natural forest fires can not occur in India as the temperatures do not go so high. That goes to conclude, all the fires are caused by humans. Many times deliberately and rest of the times due to human negligence. Forests are the lungs of the world, they provide oxygen to humans, besides