Forest fires
Environment
Reforestation: How to Turn the Greek Landscape Green After Fires
With every devastating fire in Greece, reforestation becomes the second most crucial issue after state assistance to those affected. Former West Attica Forest director Dimitris Spathis offered his ideas about reforestation exclusively to Greek Reporter in an interview.
Last August, the government...
Environment
US Experts Assist Greece to Revive Fire-Stricken Areas
A US team of experts presented a report on Monday to revive areas in Greece that were destroyed by the fires of SUmmer 2021.
The team from the US Forest Service's Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) program presented the report on...
Environment
Conservationist Laments Loss of City’s “Green Lung,” Touts Prevention
A conservationist stated that the funds used for firefighting by Greece should have been used for fire prevention.
Environment
Greek PM Vows to Re-forest Greece After the Fires
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Twitter that Greece will re-forest the land destroyed by the fires taking place across Greece. Mitsotakis said in his post that "all burned areas will be considered re-forestable. We will change the way...
Environment
Fires Rage On Across Greece as Temperatures Remain High
A series of forest fires have broken out across Greece as high temperatures and strong winds strengthened the blazes on Sunday.
Cyprus
Four People Found Dead After Forest Fires Blaze Through Cyprus
At least four people have died after forest fires raged through Cyprus, razing large swathes of land around the cities of Larnaka and Limassol on Saturday.
An estimated 55 square km, or over 13,000 acres, of land, as well as...
Environment
New Data Reveal Extent of Cretan Fires
An area of 1,534 hectares was burnt on Crete in 2018 by the fires that broke out on the island during the year.
According to Greece’s Fire Brigade, 556 fires that burned farmland and forests were recorded on the island...
Environment
WWF Greece Calls on Citizens to Help Spread Forest Fire Awareness and Prevention
Following the dreary news from the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS) that forest fires in Greece has been dubbed the fifth worst year in a decade for 2016, the environmental conservation organization, WWF Greece, has called for action.
At a...
Crime
Controversial New Austerity Law to Change Forest Maps Scrapped
Forest fires are not uncommon in Greece in great part due to the fact that in Greece if land is mapped as a forest zone, it is illegal to build. This has led many people to take matters into...
Environment
25% Less Fires in Greece in 2014
As summer is coming to an end, the first estimates of the Hellenic Fire Department (HFD) is that the number of forest fires in Greece this year fell sharply.
Unlike previous summer periods, the measurable effects of fires in 2014...