The cause of Himalayan forest fires

Forest fires have been in the news recently. Some are inevitable and a necessary event in the life of an ecosystem – part of the natural cycle of death and regeneration. But many people now believe that climate change is causing them to occur more frequently and with more devastating consequences.

I’ve recently been editing the video footage from my trip to the Kangchenjunga region of Nepal earlier this year, where we witnessed a Himalayan forest fire that we believe was entirely man-made.

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