Why are bushfires important ?
There are some obvious reasons for knowing about bush fires:
- Environmentally bushfires can be important to local ecosystems. eg smoke is sometimes needed for seeds to germinate.
- Bushfire benefits to the environment and recovery
- Bushfires can have a economic and emotional effect on people and property directly affected.
Having a better understanding of bushfire causes can help you better prepare and perhaps minimise or prevent bushfire damage.
Bushfires can affect the atmosphere by :
- creating large volumes of smoke and ash.
- causing localised changes in weather.
- increasing the amount of carbon dioxide CO2
Pyrocumulonimbus cloud forming as a result of a bushfire below
The environmental protection authority provides current air quality For asthmatics the increased smoke in the air can provoke asthma attacks.