Australia's 2019-20 Black Summer bushfire season more than three billion native animals were killed or displaced. Prague Zoo began fundraising to support organisations rescuing and saving Australian wildlife.Gives details of the organisations Prague Zoo is supporting: Zoos Victoria, Adelaide Zoo, Kangaroo Island Land For Wildlife, Mt Rothwell, Wires, and Secret Creek Sanctuary. [Děkuji, Praha.]
Discover the science behind raging wildfires, the world's worst-ever wildfire disasters, and the technology that scientists are using to help prevent devastating wildfires of the future."--
Wildfire is a natural phenomenon that has crept closer to humans as humans have moved into its natural habitat.
A gripping account of the tragic 1994 South Canyon forest fire that killed fourteen firefighters chronicles the string of seemingly small human blunders that contributed to the tragedy. Reprint.
The book looks at three of these natural disasters from recent years in detail: the Black Saturday bushfires in Australia in 2009, the Colorado wildfire of 2012 and the forest fires in Bolivia in 2010.