RE: RE: "Life After the Fire" - A Series of Photographs of the Fynbos' New Growth After a Devastating Wildfire
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RE: "Life After the Fire" - A Series of Photographs of the Fynbos' New Growth After a Devastating Wildfire

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Wow, some amazing shots here, your some man with a camera 👌 and I learned something new too, this was news to me:

Indigenous South African fynbos (fine bush) needs wildfire to spread their seeds. The fire helps the plants release their seeds, which will then germinate and produce new plants. In this case, fire really means the breath of life. But it is devastating nonetheless and one can only imagine the destruction to life, such as small animals that cannot escape the fire quick enough.

I'd never seen the positive side of forest fires before as mentioned here..

It is a total inversion of how we normally view fire. We do not normally see fire as giving life, but rather as taking it away.