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The greenery has slowly begun to split between the dry lands and burned forests on the Greek island of Evia, a year after last summer’s massive fires.
In 2021 the fires destroyed about a third of the island’s forest cover, where farmers and buyer growers still suffer the consequences.
As the fire season threatens the island again, forestry official Elias Apostolidis says the main goal is to avoid what happened last summer.
“In some areas there is better recovery than in others,” he says as the blackened faces of the mountains and the corpses of burnt trees are still visible.
Officials add that the forests and lawns that produced the area’s best honey will take two decades to recover, while the best way is for nature to regenerate on its own.
For two weeks last August about 40,000 hectares were engulfed by smoke and fire in Evia, 80 kilometers east of Athens in a massive destruction of the vegetative world.
Thousands of locals and tourists fled to the north of the island amid apocalyptic scenes of evacuations and destruction.
Last summer the fires engulfed all of southern Europe, even Turkey and Algeria.
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