Investing in Fire Prevention Would Help Save an Area Like Portugal: for Every 1 Billion Euros, 99,000 Would Be Saved.

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According to data from Greenpeace, so far this year the 28 large forest fires have cost approximately 615 million euros

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The prevention of forest fires encompasses the set of activities that seek, on the one hand, to prevent the start of fires, and, on the other hand, to minimize their effects once they have occurred. Forest fire prevention infrastructures aim to reduce the area affected by fire, preventing or slowing down its spread. They are part of forest fire prevention infrastructures: Tracks and roads. Extinguishing deposits. Discontinuity zones (firewall ar…

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Paulo Pimenta de Castro, engineer silvicultor, laments the “lack of security culture in Portugal” regarding fire prevention and calls for “political consensus” for a medium- and long-term strategy in this regard.

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The intense heat wave that Spain is going through has put the whole country in check by exacerbating the power and impact of forest fires. Given this fact, Greenpeace puts the focus on the main solution: forest prevention and management. The environmental organization points out that, with an investment of 1 billion euros a year in forest fire prevention and management, the estimated savings would be 99 billion euros, that is, a return of 9.900%…