🔥 Wildfires in the EU are getting longer and more intense. Despite much-needed intermittent rain last year, leading to less land burnt than in 2023, the total of 383 thousand hectares still exceeded the 17-year average. Countries like Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain were hit hardest, while Ukraine bore significant losses outside the EU, with most wildfires seen across the combat frontlines. In 2025, our nature and vegetation continued to face these challenges. With extreme heatwaves adding fuel to the fire, urgency is needed. So far, we have doubled our rescEU fleet and strengthened firefighting resources. Yet, firefighting alone isn't enough. We need proactive measures: 🌱 Integrated wildfire risk management 🌿 Nature-based solutions 🌲 Sustainable landscape management 📷© European Union – Wildfire emergency in Chios, Greece. Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery, 23 June 2025
Insert higher moisture content trees in forests in order to create natural barriers with out sacrificing biodiversity
Definitely not worldwide! The reason in Portugal are Eucalyptus forests for the paper industry, a non domestic tree from Australia!
create stone borders that the fire can’t crawl much further. Divide the forest into areas. So only a specific are will burn down!
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The situation with the summer fires is out of control. EU should act immediately and take measures in order to help the EU countries (especially in the south).
If you want to find out more about the 2024 wildfires season in Europe, read our full report https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC144093
Interesting
You prove the problem in your own post. You literally admit less land burned than in 2023, then spin it as proof that fires are “getting longer and more intense” and demand yet another layer of Brussels buzzwords: “integrated risk management”, “nature-based solutions”, “sustainable landscape management.” That’s not science, that’s a funding pitch. What’s missing? Any honesty about arson, decades of mismanaged forests, fuel build-up from abandoned farmland, blocked logging, blocked grazing and blocked controlled burns. Southern Europe was always a fire-prone Mediterranean landscape – EU policy helped turn it into a powder keg, then blames “the climate” every time it explodes. And of course, the answer is never fewer bad rules and more local control; it’s always more money and power to the same people who let villages, grids and forests become so vulnerable in the first place.