Learn languages naturally with fresh, real content!

tap to translate recording

Explore By Region

flag Spain's 2025 wildfires burned 330,000 hectares and killed four, exposing failures in forest management and prevention funding.

flag Spain's 2025 wildfire season, especially in Galicia, burned 330,000 hectares and killed four, sparking urgent calls for better forest management. flag Decades of underinvestment, declining rural populations, and inadequate oversight of privately owned forests—over two-thirds of the country’s total—have worsened fire risks. flag Experts and locals urge reviving controlled winter burns and increasing prevention spending, noting that every euro invested saves up to 100 in firefighting costs. flag Despite Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez acknowledging past failures and pledging reforms, funding for prevention has dropped 52% since 2009, and Spain received less EU recovery funding for fire prevention than neighboring countries. flag Climate change, with hotter, drier conditions, continues to heighten the threat, raising concerns that without immediate action, similar disasters could recur in about six years.

6 Articles