A recent report said that dry forests are under pressure from climate change, deforestation, and fire. The report says that forest fires may increse in the coming days because of climate change, extreme weather patterns. The report identifies weather, climate change-induced extremities, topography and the people s the main causes of the forest fires. It says dry and moist deciduous forests of Chattisgarh, Maharashtra, Telangana are affected by forest fires every year. District level analysis between 2003-2016 shows monsoon give early warning of severity for next year's fire.
A district that experiences higher rainfall than its long-term average during the monsoon likely to experience forest fires the following year. The authors of the report interviews 11 forest officers and they revealed that humans cause the most number of forest fire by negligence and collection of non-timber forest products in Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, and Telangana being the catalysts.
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