RUSSIA. Yakutia. Magaras. July 11, 2021.

“I haven’t seen it, but that’s what people are saying,” Yegor Andreyev, center, a villager in Magaras, said of widely circulating rumors that unnamed “bosses” are burning the forests to further various corrupt schemes. He also adds that because of the large forest fires a lot of small animals died and there will be a big migration of larger animals, such as brown bears, to unburnt areas, which will make hunting harder this year.