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Eat, roam, repeat: Can the bison's big appetite stop Spain's forest fires?


Eat, roam, repeat: Can the bison’s big appetite stop Spain’s forest fires?
Stephen Burgen in Barcelona
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As the temperatures begin to rise, Spain is braced for another summer of the forest fires that over the past 10 years have destroyed about 741,000 hectares (1.8m acres) of forest.
Last year, fires consumed 45,000 hectares according to government estimates, the year before 60,000 hectares, and there are signs that, as in California and Australia, the fires are becoming more frequent and more intense.
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Reintroducing bison could help fill the grazing gap left by a decline in sheep farming. ....

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Eat, roam, repeat: Can the bison's big appetite stop Spain's forest fires? | Environment


Wed 14 Apr 2021 01.00 EDT
As the temperatures begin to rise, Spain is braced for another summer of the forest fires that over the past 10 years have destroyed about 741,000 hectares (1.8m acres) of forest.
Last year, fires consumed 45,000 hectares according to government estimates, the year before 60,000 hectares, and there are signs that, as in California and Australia, the fires are becoming more frequent and more intense.
Climate change and rural depopulation are among the factors driving an increase in Spain’s forest fires, says Mónica Parrilla, who is responsible for Greenpeace’s forest fire campaign.
At the same time, a decline in sheep herding is leaving Spain without a large herbivore to clear the undergrowth that fuels the fires. ....

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