Devastating wildfires continue to afflict many areas around the world, the result of persistent drier weather caused by climate change and harmful human activities such as accidental burning and forest clearance. In the eastern Mediterranean, Greece and Turkey have been ravaged by hundreds of wildfires, with green forests reduced to ashes, people’s farms and homes lost in the flames, and thousands of species put at risk. Thank you so much to our supporters around the world who have been donating to the emergency appeal we launched in response – backing our efforts in these countries to help firefighting responses, rescue and rehabilitate wildlife, and prevent future fires. Elsewhere in the world, we have also been supporting firefighting efforts in the Yakutia region of Russia where 17m hectares of forest have been destroyed; and our work continues in Australia and across Latin America to help safeguard people and nature from the wildfire menace.
Wildfires are a disaster for people and nature
