transport, waste management, residential emissions and deforestation
are high on the target list - especially since a report last week revealed
that 20% of the nation’s countryside
is suffering from desertification. For
full story see: ThinkSpain
Fire Risk warning system on the
Montgó
Initiative by Xàbia also taken up by
Denia Town Hall. In a coordinated
action, the municipalities of Denia
and Javea have installed a new system warning o f forest fire risks in
different parts of the Montgó, natural
park. There are seven “traffic light”
information posts in the Xàbia area,
on La Plana and along the Jesus Pobre road. The posts explain the three
colour codes of fire risk which like
traffic lights are green, amber and red
and there is a small panel displaying
today’s risk based on the Emergency Coordination centre’s advice. The
Civic Protection brigade will be responsible for changing the info panels each day. From : La Marina Plaza
( Ed’s note: This at a time when the
Montgó Natural Park does not have
a Director, and will not have one appointed before the autumn at the earliest See: Las Provincias)
Large forest fires devastate 37% of
the area burned in Spain over the
past 10 years
The impact of large forest fires in
Spain has intensified in the last decade. Between 2006 and 2015, they
devastated 37% of the total mass affected, according to a WWF report.
Last year, these fires were twice as
large and destructive than the average of the last decade: each burned,
on average, more than 2,600 hectares, and three ( Quesada Jaen , Luna
in Zaragoza and Acebo on the Sierra
de Gata ) comprised 80% of the total
burned by large fires in Spain.