Botswana loses 1.3m hectares to veldt fires
Thursday, October 26, 2017
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Summer brings a higher fire hazard
National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) director, Moagi Baleseng said this when speaking at a two-day national disaster risk reduction preparedness conference which kicked off here yesterday.
Baleseng said that increasing amounts of biomass in most parts of the country were fuelling the increase in the number of hectares affected by veldt fires.
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