Spanish volunteers remove eucalyptus in bid to prevent wildfires
Al Jazeera
People in northwest Spain fear that the prevalence of the highly inflammable tree species is a significant risk.
Galicia, Spain – Joam Evans and his family live in Froxan, a small village in the mountains of Galicia, an autonomous region in Spain’s northwest. To get there, one has to drive uphill through a maze of empty rural roads flanked by oaks, chestnuts, pines and a large number of eucalyptus trees. Recent weeks have been extremely hot as a heatwave gripped southern Europe, but when this reporter travelled to the region, there was drizzle and a thin layer of mist covered the landscape.More Related News