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The area of "unaccounted" fires in Yakutia exceeded official statistics in the country
In the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) there are forest fires that did not fall into the official reporting of the Federal Forestry Agency (i.e. hidden from citizens and state authorities of the Russian Federation), with a total area of about fifty thousand hectares, reports the Forest Forum Greenpeace, based on cosmic monitoring data.
“The area of only large fires, which are unambiguously identified by distance methods both in the“ heaters ”and in the bellies and loops of smoke acting in Yakutia, is, even according to the most modest estimates, about 50-60 thousand hectares,” the report said.
At the same time, Rosleskhoz, in his information report on forest fires, reports that as of 07/05/2012, 276 forest fires on a total area of 32543 hectares operated in Russia. Of these, "in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) there are 12 fires, 544 hectares of forest covered with forest, 378 hectares of non -oil area are covered."
The situation with forest fires in this region quickly worsens due to dry, hot and windy weather; Local thunderstorm rains do not help to cope with the situation.
At the same time, the new head of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies, Vladimir Puchkov, who visited Yakutsk today, noted the “positive work of the commission for the prevention and liquidation of emergency situations and ensuring the fire safety of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and the Main Directorate of the Russian Emergencies Ministry for the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)”.
Distortion and concealment of data on the real scale of forest fires in Russia is a widespread practice, emphasize in Greenpeace. It is thanks to the concealment of data on forest fires and the damage to the state authorities that they do can pretend that the actions taken after the 2010 fire disaster led to an increase in the security of forests and other natural territories from fire, reduced the level of fire hazard and the damage caused by fires.
In reality, the situation with forest fires continues to deteriorate: in 2011, much more forests burned out than in 2010, and in 2012 it will clearly burn much more than in 2011. Due to the fact that in 2011 and in the first half of 2012, the forests of the regions of the North, Siberia and the Far East, which were mainly unprotected from the capital, were burning, these fires remained unprotected by the majority of inhabitants of our country, it was noted in the first time. message.
Recall that in mid -May, Greenpeace already complained to the Prosecutor General’s Office for the Ministry of Emergencies in the Amur Region for concealing information about fires. According to space monitoring in the region, fires are covered by more than a million hectares of forest, but these fires also do not fall into the official reports.