Macin Mountains to be video monitored, through project aimed at increasing effectiveness of fire management

The Muntii Macinului National Park (PNMM) will be video-monitored starting next year, as part of a project financed by the European Union that aims to increase the effectiveness of fire management against the backdrop of climate change and that brings together the expertise of 47 entities, organizations and institutions from 13 countries European and Taiwan.

"We are the only park in Romania located in the steppe bioregion where the vegetal carpet is among the most exposed to the risk of causing fires, due to anthropogenic or natural causes. Here, we interfere with types of ecosystems exposed to a very high level in what it concerns the risk of fires," PNMM director Viorel Rosca said for AGERPRES.

As part of the European project, PNMM will be video and audio monitored, and the authorities will also receive a drone to intervene in emergency situations, Agerpres informs.

"The efficiency of interventions will be greatly increased throughout the Dobrogea region. We will be monitored online in everything that means temperature, temperature fluctuations and that red period that can appear in the summer months, July, August, as happened in previous years," said director Rosca.

According to the cited source, the location of the monitoring equipment will be done next year, with the European project to end in 2025.