The departmental forest water service, for its part, deemed it necessary to carry out, this year, a road treatment consisting of weeding 32.28 kilometers to avoid bush fires which break out along certain roads in the department. To this end, fifty-four early fires on grassy cover, controlled and controlled, were carried out over the authorized period from November 10, 2024 to January 10, 2025 in the department of Kédougou (east) to serve as a barrier to any spread of fires. bush in some areas.
“These 54 cases of early preventive fires are carried out on 335,976 hectares of grassy cover over the period of two months authorized by the prefect of the Kédougou department. And, the early and controlled burning of these hectares of grassy carpet will serve as a barrier and a path to avoid the spread of bush fires in certain areas of the department,” said Ansoumana Sonko, head of the departmental water sector, on Sunday. forests during an interview with the APS.
“We have also opened 5 to 6 kilometers of firebreaks in the Kédougou department,” he further indicated, adding that with the agents of the +xeyu ndaw ni+ program and the help of the company Soseter’ ‘, 800 meters of firebreak were built at the Kenioto village, precisely on the Saraya road.
Ansoumana Sonko indicated that the department of Kédougou recorded at the start of 2025, two cases of bush fires which ravaged 30.05 hectares of grassy cover.
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