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INTERVIEW

According to the Director General of Lebanese Civil Defense, General Darwish Hobeika, All forest fires were intentional and deliberate.

The Director-General of the Lebanese Civil Defense General Darwish Hobeika declared that recent forest-fires were man-made. He discloses the mechanism used to trigger most of these fires.

General Hobeika also revealed that according to Civil Defense statistics 21,885 fires were extinguished in 2007.

 

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Forest Fire causes                         

 

                                                                                          

* Land abandonment

* Systematic burning of agricultural

   wastes during summer time

* Over gazing and the use of fire

* Transformation for urban use

* Lack of law enforcement

* Negligence

* Accidents

 

                                                              

 

                                                               

Forest fire results

 

                               

* Economic loss

* Loss of wild life

* Loss of green cover

* Soil erosions

* Reduction of ground water

* Climate change

* Habitat change

           

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

More pictures about 2007 fires in Lebanon - click here

 

 

 

             

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