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20260426-fires-forests
british columbia declares state of emergency as wildfire season opens six weeks early. / costa rica announces forest cover has returned to 1940s levels after sixty years of decline.
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british columbia declares state of emergency as wildfire season opens six weeks early.
twenty-three active fires are burning, eleven of them out of control. evacuation orders cover 4,800 residents. the provincial government has requested federal personnel for the first time since 2023.
read the source at bbc ↗hopeful·CR
costa rica announces forest cover has returned to 1940s levels after sixty years of decline.
an independent ecological survey confirms 60 percent of the country is now forested, a turnaround attributed to payments-for-ecosystem-services policy and a 1996 ban on deforestation. neighbouring panama has adopted the same framework.
read the source at national geographic ↗the dispatch
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