States countryside manager John Pinel said that, depending on the weather, it could take up to ten years for the area to regenerate.He said that the most worrying impact could have been the loss of white tooth shrews, which he described as being ‘very rare in a British context’.’It was a good piece of mature gorseland which is excellent for birds and is very rich in insects,’ he said.
‘I would expect that a lot of animals were killed.’Short term, these sorts of fires are a local disaster, especially for the animals that have been killed.
In the long term, it will come back.
It is likely to take at least five years.’
