The country lost a record 8.6 million hectares of forest last year, the vast majority of that due to wildfire, new analysis shows
Society of Protection of Forests from Fire prevention agent Melanie Morin walks through an area of burned forest in the area surrounding Lebel-sur-Quevillon, Que., on July 5, 2023.data, produced by researchers at the University of Maryland, showed
The findings were released by the World Resources Institute’s Global Forest Watch online platform on Thursday as much, including drought and unseasonably warm temperatures. The latest Canadian Drought Monitor, from the end of February, reported much of Alberta and pockets of Saskatchewan and British Columbia were suffering “extreme” or “exceptional” drought. Nearly three quarters of the country was classified as “abnormally dry.
Canada’s overall forest loss last year, though widely described as record-breaking, had only a negligible impact on the country’s vast overall forest cover. In the Canadian Forest Service’s latest annual report on the state of Canada’s forests, released last month, Canada had 367 million hectares of forest at the end of 2022, so last year’s burn scars represent more than 2 per cent of the total.the average area burned has been 2.3 million hectares annually.
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