'Our homeland is burning': Volunteers join Siberia wildfire fight

"I've lived my whole life in the taiga. I'm dependent on nature," 65-year-old Ivan Fyodorov says as he helps fight a fire near his land. "We have to protect it."

With emergency services struggling, hundreds of volunteers have joined the efforts to contain the blazes, which experts have linked to climate change

The father and son stood in the forest burning around them, the elder with a shovel in hand, the younger with a plastic bottle filled with gasoline.

As the son poured the fuel onto the forest floor, watching as the rising flames rendered white birch trunks black, his father shovelled dirt onto embers that popped across the other side of a trench marked for a controlled burn.

Originally published as 'Our homeland is burning': Volunteers join Siberia wildfire fight