A study conducted in Australia revealed that the population of 55 percent of plant species and animals in the country decreased after forest fires in 2019 and 2020.
According to Nature magazine, scientists have studied the influence of forest fires in Australia in 2019 and 2020 on 1380 species of animals and plants.
As a result of the study, it was found that the population of plants and animals in the country decreased by 55 percent due to these fires that burned out about 24.3 million hectares of land.
Scientists said that the reduction in the number of mammals, in particular, was 2 times higher compared to other groups of animals.
During the study, it was found that biodiversity in regions where at least 3 fires have occurred over the past 40 years, suffered 93 percent more compared to regions that burned once or never burned.
In Australia in 2019 and 2020, as a result of fires operating in forest and meadow regions and periodically spread to settlements, 34 people were killed, about 24.3 million hectares of land burned.