Overall Green Forest fire alert in Botswana from 11 Sep 2023 00:00 UTC to 19 Sep 2023 00:00 UTC

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Forest Fire (20458 ha) in Botswana 11 Sep 2023

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Articles after 10 Sep 2023

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2023-09-22T14:33+0200eu-boell (en)

If our ancestors had come up with the idea of equipping the world with information boards and warning signs, the pathways to peatlands would long ago have been decorated with signs saying things like “Warning: Entrance to Hell” or “Caution: Beware of the ghosts”. Many a solitary wanderer who ventured into a peatland was never seen again.

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