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Rural Sociology | Editor @RevistaRivar | PhD candidate @METU_ODTU |‘appearance tyrannizes over truth’.
Aug 3, 2021 12 tweets 7 min read
Last 20 yrs #Portugal had the highest burnt area of EU. 2017 record a massive 540 thousand ha. That was the last yr I worked as firefighter on my home region Basto. I have seen much misinformation on fires in #Turkey that I wanted to share some comments (thread) #Turkeyisburning Image European Fire Database (EFFIS) shows 95 thousand ha already burned in 2021 #Turkey. The annual average 2008-2020 was 13 thousand. It usually takes an atypical year (worst heatwave of the decade) to reveal lack of preparation for wildfires (prevention, resources, planning etc...)