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While humanity faces the Corona pandemic during the year 2020, wildlife is also threatened by disasters and fires around the world.
The fires did not differentiate between humans and animals, while the California state fires left many dead, the Australian wildfires that started late last year and continued through March 2020 resulted in the death and displacement of nearly 3 billion of animals.
In its report, Anatolia reviews the most important fires and disasters that threatened wildlife in the world during the year that is coming to an end.
January
On January 1, Australia’s wildfires continued, killing 20 people so far and burning around 6 million hectares (14.8 million acres).
On the 2nd of the same month, a state of emergency was declared in the Australian state of “Victoria” as a result of the forest fires in the south.
On January 17, Australian authorities announced the death of hundreds of thousands of native fish in the northern state of “New South Wales” as the rain washed ash and mud from wildfires into the Macclee River.
On January 31, the country’s authorities declared a state of emergency in the Capital Territory, with massive wildfires south of Canberra.
February
A fire in a forest on February 17, India, resulted in the death of three forest officials while trying to prevent a fire in the Thrissur district of the southern Kerala state.
On the 24th of the same month, strong winds, sand storms and forest fires in the Canary Islands stranded thousands of tourists.
March
On March 9, a study published by the International Fund for Animal Welfare in Australia reported that at least 5,000 koalas, representing 12 percent of its population, had died in the state of “New South Wales” due to the forest fires that raged between 2019 and 2020..
A study published by the Australian “Medical Journal” on the 23rd of the month indicated that an estimated thousands of people in Australia have died as a result of air pollution resulting from the recent bushfires in the country.
On March 25, two people, including a child, were killed in a forest fire in “Idoki” district, Kerala state, India.
In China, at least 19 people died while trying to extinguish a forest fire on March 31 in the southwestern province of Sichuan.
April
On April 4, a massive fire broke out in a wooded area near the “Chernobyl” nuclear reactor in Kiev, Kiev, Ukraine. Two days later, authorities indicated that it was extinct and that radiation levels were normal.
On the 10th of the same month, fires broke out in the forests of the southern US state of “New Jersey”, burning more than 1,000 acres of land.
On April 13, a fire broke out in the forests of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in northern Ukraine and reached Pripyat.
On April 21, several fires broke out in the forests of Scotland, lasting a few days, due to the dry weather.
And the wildfires of April 22 resulted in the burning of thousands of hectares of Biberza National Park, the largest national park in Poland.
On April 24, the international organization “BirdLife” announced that five bird species in Australia, one of them endangered, were negatively affected by the unprecedented wildfires that broke out across the country last summer.
May
The Florida wildfires forced thousands of residents to evacuate their homes on May 7.
On May 17, a forest fire broke out in the coastal town of “Guerna” in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, as a result of continued heat waves on the island.
June
On June 18, thousands of people in Arizona were evacuated due to massive wildfires.
On June 30, a fire broke out in the forests near Mount “Sabil” in the Turkish state of “Manisa” in the Aegean region of Turkey.
July
Official statistics from July 1 indicated that the number of fires in the Amazon rainforest increased by 20 percent in June, reaching its highest monthly rate in 13 years, with 2,248 fires.
On July 6, a fire broke out in the forests of the historic Gallipoli Peninsula in northwestern Turkey’s Çanakkale state, causing “thousands of trees to turn to ash”.
On July 7, 4 people died as a result of a fire in the eastern forest of Ukraine, in addition to the destruction of 110 homes.
On July 9, hundreds of children were evacuated from a summer camp in south-central Greece after a forest fire broke out.
On July 15, local authorities in northern China announced the extinction of 21 major fires in the forests of the “Greater Chengan” mountain range.
On July 20, fires burned northwestern Turkey about two hectares (5 acres) of forest and about 8 hectares of agricultural land.
On July 22, US authorities announced that fires broke out in the forests of northern California, burning more than 23,000 acres in a few days.
On July 23, residents of several towns in southern Greece were evacuated as a result of a forest fire in the area.
An interim report issued by Australian authorities on July 28 revealed that wildfires have killed or displaced nearly 3 billion animals during what Prime Minister Scott Morrison called “Black Summer.”
August
On August 3, firefighters tried to control a forest fire in the Spanish capital, Madrid.
On August 21, at least 5 people died from dozens of wildfires that ravaged Northern California.
On August 23, about 800 families in six villages in the state of “Adana” in southeastern Turkey were evacuated, after fires devastated an area of almost 200 hectares.
September
On September 8, 49 new fires were contained in the California forests of the United States, as the state tries to contain 24 larger fires that have broken out over the course of several weeks.
Wildfires that were spread by storms in California and neighboring northern states continued on September 11, and about 10 people died from them.
On September 14, at least 33 people were killed in wildfires that broke out along the western coast of the United States.
On September 29, 3 people were killed and 1,200 residents were evacuated in Northern California, as wildfires continued in the state.
October
On October 2, at least 11 people were killed and 17 others injured in forest fires in the Lugansk region of eastern Ukraine.
And on October 5, wildfires continued in California, USA, burning twice as many fires as previously burned areas.
On October 10, at least 10 people were injured in wildfires in Hatay province, southern Turkey.
On the same date, huge forest fires broke out in Syria, killing two people and burning tens of thousands of acres of acres, while the fires spread to neighboring Lebanon and Israel.
On October 12, firefighters in Tanzania attempted to control a massive fire on Mount Kilimanjaro that threatened the flora and fauna surrounding Africa’s highest mountain.
On October 27, more than 100,000 people were forcibly evacuated, with two massive fires in Southern California, USA.
On October 31, land in the “Pantanal” wetland in Brazil burned at the fastest rate since record-keeping began in 1998, further damaging the country’s environmental ratings.
November
On November 7, two people died as a result of a fire in the woods west of the capital Algiers.
New wildfires in Nevada and California in the United States on November 19 resulted in the evacuation of more than 1,000 people as winds fanned the flames.
Forest fires that broke out on “Fraser” island off the coast of the Australian state of “Queensland” penetrated almost 74 kilometers, covering more than half of the island, authorities announced on 23 November.
December
On December 1, firefighters managed to extinguish a fire 10 hours after it broke out in the forests of “Inbolu” in the Turkish state of “Kastamonu”.
On the 7th of the same month, Australian authorities called on dozens of Fraser Island residents to evacuate their homes, as a fire moved east across the island.
Source: Anatolia Agency
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