27.01.2012                      03.Schwat. 5772                      Auschwitz-Gedenk-Tag

Umwelt:

Education a vital tool in fire prevention, say experts

Int’l conference on climate change examines ways to reduce risk while maintaining lush park lands.

Without the active participation and inclusion of local communities in forest-fire prevention activities, catastrophes like the blaze that overtook the Carmel region in December 2010 are more likely to occur, both intentionally and unintentionally, experts said Wednesday.
“The name of the game is risk management, and we want to reduce the risk,” said Yeshayahu Bar-Or, deputy director-general of the Environmental Protection Ministry. “As long as there is a forest, there is a risk for fire.”…