SciDevNet: Urbanisation may lead to fewer traditional controlled burns in rural areas
Build up of dry vegetation would raise risk of more-damaging fires
Official efforts to ban all fires clash with traditional management
Shares African wildfires may become larger and more intense as more people move to cities, a study has found.
Traditional ways of using controlled burning to prevent out-of-control natural fires could die out in many rural areas as urbanisation increases, leaving grassland free...