SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, July 24 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Franz Weber Foundation has warned that the forest fire in Tenerife, which has affected more than 2,000 hectares, could have already caused the death of more than 15,000 wild animals and some domesticated, according to the predictive models of Professor Christopher Dickman , from the University of Sydney (Australia).
The Foundation has indicated that in previous works it estimates that for each hectare there are, on average, between ten and fifteen individuals of species of small mammals, birds and other living beings, such as invertebrates. In the case of the island, an attempt has been made to adjust this comparison.
It adds that, according to the successive reports of the Attorney General’s Office for the Environment, the vast majority of fires have a clear human intention to generate pasture for livestock, drive away wild predators or improve hunting actions in a certain area.
The naturalist NGO advocates that the central and Canarian governments adopt a preventive public strategy, from policies that contribute to changing eating habits with less environmental impact, with a greater intake of vegetables and less meat, whose production is heating up the planet, assuming renaturalization as proactive measure while hunting is definitively banned in the spaces affected by the flames and those adjacent to them.
Leonardo Anselmi, director of FFW for Southern Europe, explained: “We are at a turning point: We can continue impacting the multi-million dollar support for livestock industries or bet on far-reaching food changes, because it is more than proven that the livestock has an impact on the entire planet with its emissions and its food inefficiency”.
“The country of livestock farming could perfectly be the country of methane emissions and other elements. They try to make us believe that extensive models are very beneficial when in reality it entails an even greater ecological impact based on criteria of transport, resource consumption or the own emissions,” concludes Anselmi.
