Question

What are the problems caused by forest fires?

Answer 1

Forest fires cause lots of damage, some of them are – loss of wildlife habitat, extinction of plants and animals, destroys the nutrient rich top soil, reduction in forest cover, loss of valuable timber resources, ozone layer depletion, loss of livelihood for tribal people and poor people, increase in global warming, increase in carbon dioxide content in the atmosphere, degradation of catchment areas, loss of biodiversity, increase in diseases etc