The Jasper fire reinforces the risks that climate change and related extreme weather events pose to Canada's world heritage sites.
Climate change and extreme weather events pose a real risk to the world’s heritage sites — a stark reality laid bare by the recent wildfire in Jasper, Alta.
The catastrophic Jasper fire highlights the vulnerability of Canada’s UNESCO World Heritage sites to the dual threat of climate change and extreme weather events, particularly wildfires. The Jasper wildfire indicates that Canada may be increasingly unable to fully protect its world heritage sites from wildfire — despite decades of accumulated knowledge as to the growing problems wildfires will pose in a warming world.
Wildfires and droughts are not the only climate change-related challenges for Jasper and other national parks.
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