On Tuesday, 19 November, the 2023 annual report on forest fires revealed that more than 500,000 hectares of natural land – that being an area of around half the size of the island of Cyprus – were hit.
For instance, the forest fire near Alexandroupolis, in the Greek region of East Macedonia and Thrace, was the largest wildfire recorded in the EU since the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS) was set up in 2000, with 96,000 hectares burnt. The report specifies that...