Firefighters sometimes have to intervene for poorly controlled burnouts.
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The event prompted France Nature Environnement Midi-Pyrénées (FNE) to react.
The federation of environmental associations lodged a complaint with the public prosecutor of Tarbes, after a burnout started on March 3 on the heights of Salles, in the Hautes-Pyrénées.
This practice is a classic technique of maintaining pastoral spaces by fire.
But it is not always under control.
Thus, during the burnout triggered at the beginning of the month, 30 hectares of vegetation had burned, in particular on a Natura 2000 site. In addition, the act had been carried out despite a prefectural decree of temporary prohibition, due to the pollution. air with fine particles, bound to the sand of the Sahara.
Fauna and flora impacted
“This fire led to the destruction of many habitats of protected species inventoried in this sector, deplore FNE Midi-Pyrénées and its Bigourdane branch.
And as with every fire, micro-mammals, reptiles, amphibians, insects and micro-fauna in the soil perish.
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For Cécile Argentin, president of FNE 65, these ecobuages "whether they are illegal or" supervised "have a strong impact on biodiversity but also on human health".
"These practices must adapt to climate change as well as to the increased risk of the spread of all fires", estimates the association manager.
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