Impact of Climate Change on Forest Fires in India and Climate Adaptive Management Strategies

Forest fire is a growing problem worldwide; especially the tropical forests are in constant danger of wildfire typically during the respective summer season. The extent of fire and the amount of loss are increasing day by day. India is also not an exception of this situation. Though the reasons of Indian forest fires are mostly attributed to the anthropogenic causes, globally researches have shown that along with anthropogenic activities accelerated climate change has almost equal contribution to these wildfires. Not only in India, worldwide now it is accepted that with increase in climate change scenario, more devastating wildfires are going to take place in near future. Therefore, now it is high time to rethink about the forest fire management strategies and climate adaptive forest fire management strategies are the new solution for the future resilience building towards wildfires.