This Saturday, July 23, the large fire is almost extinguished and the entrance to the Banc d’Arguin has been reopened. Pilat dune bears only red and smoky trees; walkers, hangars, paragliders and campers have disappeared.
Economic activity in the basin decreased by 40 percent in a few days. Many rentals have been canceled. Pilat seems like a half-season. At Banc d’Arguin, boatmen discover thousands of pine needles, some charred, carried by easterly winds during the Landes fire. It usually comes from the northwest and deposits sand from the Dune du Pilat. And for the first time in a very long time, pieces of the forest exploded on the bench.
It will take about fifteen years before we start seeing forest growth
Damien Geffray, creator of Bassin TV web channel
“It will be about fifteen years before we start to see forest growth, by which time we will no longer be able to depict the basin in images of a sand dune bordered by a green canopy.you on one side and the blue ocean on the other” sums up Damien Geffray, creator of…
Source: Le Figaro
