Ireland’s ‘flammable landscape’ must be managed to avoid increased wildfire risk, expert says

Ireland has a “flammable landscape” and this will have to be managed more as extended periods of drought become the norm here, an international conference on wildfires has heard.Have your say: Have cafes and restaurants closed in your area? Do they need help?Simply leaving the landscape to rewild would encourage rather than prevent fires, he said. Some of the biggest wildfires in the UK recently had been in rewilded areas.

Whereas lightning and amenity activities that involve people lighting fires could not be stopped, treat the vegetation, Mr Nugent said. “We plan for drought in Ireland now,” said Mr Nugent, who collaborates with Met Éireann on fire risk warnings. Soil moisture monitoring was now undertaken here to anticipate drought periods, he added.

Analysis of wildfire events in Ireland through satellite and Google Earth found them to be underestimated here, said Raul Sampaio De Lima, who gave a presentation on UCC’s mapping project.

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