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International Convention on Children's right
CyberDodo and Ants (1-1)
CyberDodo and Bees (1-5)
Beaches (1-6)
The Convention (2-1)
Definition of the Child – Article 1 and 2 - (2-2)
The Mission of CyberDodo (2-40)
CyberDodo and the waste of energy (1-20)
CyberDodo and persons with disabilities (2-20)
The importance of the media – Article 17 - (2-15)
CyberDodo and the Dangers of Fire (1-7)
Rivers (1-8)
Understanding the best interests of the child (2-3)
CyberDodo and the Monkeys (1-13)
Camels (1-31)
CyberDodo and Water (1-32)
Medicinal plants (1-33)
CyberDodo and the Penguins (1-34)
CyberDodo and child soldiers (2-30)
CyberDodo and the Cheetah (1-23) 
CyberDodo and the TseTse fly (1-47)
CyberDodo fights against the sexual exploitation of children (2-27)
CyberDodo and Coral (1-16)
CyberDodo and ground water tables (1-53)
The Right to a Nationality (2-37)
CyberDodo and the Forests (1-9)
CyberDodo takes on Obesity (2-34)
CyberDodo and the Eagles (1-21)
CyberDodo and the Implementation of the Agreement (2-4)
CyberDodo and Tortoises (1-24)
CyberDodo and the Freedom of Expression (2-13)
CyberDodo and the farmyard (1-25)
CyberDodo fights against Child Trafficking (2-28)
CyberDodo and Rhinos (1-28)
CyberDodo takes on the cigarette (2-35)
CyberDodo takes on child abuse (2-16)
CyberDodo fights against child labour (2-25)
CyberDodo and greenhouse gases (1-40)
CyberDodo fights against drug abuse (2-26)
CyberDodo and Street kids(1-38)
CyberDodo fights against child abduction (2-11)
CyberDodo and Clones (1-4)
CyberDodo and the Whales (1-10)
CyberDodo and the Right to Education (2-38)
CyberDodo and Dolphins (1-11)
3 minutes to discover CyberDodo!
CyberDodo defends the Right to Freedom of Expression in the Courts (2-12)
CyberDodo and solar energy (1-45)
CyberDodo and the Elephants (1-22)
CyberDodo fights against hunger (2-6)
CyberDodo and the Ozone Layer (1-35)
CyberDodo and Urban pollution (1-19)
CyberDodo and mother’s milk (2-7)
CyberDodo and Nutrition (1-55)
Raising awareness of the Convention (2-39)
CyberDodo and city maintenance (1-41)
CyberDodo and the Sea Lion (1-18)
CyberDodo and Dodos (1-2)
CyberDodo fights against sexual aggression (2-33)
Multimedia Press Release
CyberDodo and the Sharks (1-27)
CyberDodo and the Molluscs (1-26)
CyberDodo and illegal animal trafficking (1-30)
CyberDodo and the Right to Live with one’s own Parents (2-09)
CyberDodo and draught horses (1-36)
The Right to have a name
CyberDodo and the Dams (1-37)
CyberDodo commits to the right to respect of personal privacy (2-14)
CyberDodo and the Alligators (1-39)
CyberDodo and abandoned animals (1-43)
Let us fight against the sexual exploitation of children
Hall of Fame (Winners of CyberDodo's tournaments)
CyberDodo and the Dangers of Fire (1-7)
CyberDodo and Fire 1/2
« Fire » - the word evokes numerous images heat, power, comfort, a fireplace (in colder countries) but also conflagrations and destruction. Fire has a significant place in world myths and legends, history even pre-history, when the ancestors of modern humankind developed the ability to control it, several hundreds of thousands of years ago. Fire is one of the five classical elements.
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To start a fire (without waiting for a lightning bolt to hit a bundle of twigs), three elements are necessary : a fuel, generally known as a « combustible », air, or oxygen which is known as the combustive, and a source of heat energy a lighter, spark, or matchstick.
These three elements are commonly represented in a model known as the fire triangle. Only one element is missing from the triangle - fire
Fire is a source of light, as well as heat. Just like the sun, it has a number of positive associations such as power, rituals, comfort but is also linked with more violent themes such as destruction, conflagration and even execution by burning at the stake during the Middle Ages, etc.
Fire is both a human-controlled phenomenon harnessed for various purposes such as cooking, heating shelters, landscape modification or industrial activities, and also a natural phenomenon that arises in conjunction with lightning, volcanoes and even certain types of meteorites.
Such natural phenomena are carefully observed, notably by volcanologists, given that numerous volcanic eruptions in history have ravaged entire cities, even regions, killing thousands of humans and sometimes causing damage to the extent that whole civilisations were laid to waste. (For example the Minoan eruption on the islands of Santorini, 1650 B.C.)
Even if it may seem suprising, meteorologists are also called in for the purposes of protecting nature from fires. The meteorologists work in collaboration with forest zone monitoring services.
Each year, countless lightning-caused fires wreak havoc on forests suffering drought or dryness - with terrible consequences to nature. This is so because even if mature trees have a chance of surviving wildfires thanks to their thicker bark that is able to scar, all younger and the smallest trees are irrecoverably destroyed.
As such, at the same time that frequent fires prevent the regeneration of our forests and cause serious ecological and environmental loss (fauna and flora), they are also essential for the survival of humankind. (Read more about this subject in episode 9).
