We have gone from green to yellow in just a few days. AND That lush vegetation that spring gave us It is now food for fire. Therefore, “you have to do pruning, clareos, selective and strategic debrises, defense areas, firewalls and roads”, as Patricia Gómez Agree, manager of the Confederation of Selviculters in Spain, points out.
However, only one third of the investment in fighting fire is destined for prevention, while the bulk is taken by extinction. We are very good in that, but not so much, the experts say, in forest management: “If we plant trees and then forget them, We are planting the future firesbecause that forest will grow in a messy way, “warns Víctor Resco, Professor of Forest Engineering at the University of Lleida.
Before, that work was done by those who lived from the field, but empty Spain It has filled with mountains without owner. In this sense, Patricia Gómez agrees emphasizes that “there are many mountains that are abandoned for their lack of profitability”, to which he adds that “rural depopulation has greatly influenced”.
Spain is the third country in Europe with the greatest forest mass. Sweden and Finland only win, but with that it is not enough: “We must understand that Cut trees, clear and introduce technical fire It is necessary for both our security as for the health of ecosystems, “says Víctor Resco.
In this sense, prevention concerns us all, since 90% of fires are caused For man. “You have to remember that there is a regulation, which includes not throwing glass, not throwing button and not making a barbecue,” says the manager of the Selvicular Figure of Spain. And in 2025 9,000 hectares have already burned in Spain, and that at the doors of a summer whose enemy will be fire again.
