It is a tragedy. On July 12, the two giant fires that broke out in Gironde destroyed more than 20 thousand hectares of forest. About 6,500 hectares in La Teste-de-Buch, near Arcachon, and more than 12,800 in the Landiras sector, in the south of the department, went up in smoke. A very heavy blow for the forest world. “What we’re going through is absolutely terrifyingwatched bitterly by Jean de Serval, a passionate hunter and hunter. Years of work and life have been consumed by these fires, the causes of which, whatever they may be, must be absolutely clarified.
Fire starts that always seem more and more destructive. Especially intensified by frequent and intense drought phenomena in summer, the risk of fires and the spread of fires in our country has probably never been this high. So much so that, according to a 2019 Senate report, at least a third of France’s 16.9 million hectares of forest…
Source: Le Figaro
