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More than 10,000 rural fires per year: the CPIA warns that Argentina needs a permanent prevention policy
The Forest Technical Commission of the Professional Council of Agronomic Engineering (CPIA) publicly outlined its position regarding the growing recurrence and severity of rural fires in Argentina, basing in a document the need to prioritize comprehensive prevention strategies in the country. The Technical Forestry Commission of the CPIA expresses, initially in the document, "its deep regret for the serious damage caused by the rural fires that are currently ravaging Argentine Patagonia", particularly in regions such as Northern Patagonia, Los Alerces National Park and other affected areas in the provinces of Chubut, Río Negro, Neuquén, La Pampa and Santa Cruz
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They promote forestation in Patagonia through irrigation with effluents
The initiative seeks to convert treated water from the Las Grutas effluent treatment plant into plant life through the production of plants intended to reforest the public spaces of San Antonio Oeste, Las Grutas and the Port of San Antonio Este.
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Plant aerodynamics: how trees resist wind storms without breaking
When a very strong wind, some trees bend without breaking and others fall. The key is in its natural aerodynamics: roots, flexibility of the trunk and shape of the crown.
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