JULY 2023 - Euractiv - The scented stands of pine trees stretching along France’s southwestern Atlantic coastline were reduced to charred stumps and stacks of blackened timber by the massive fires that ravaged the tourist hotspots of the Landes forest last summer.
Photo: The ground and trees of the forest of Cazaux have been cleaned in order to avoid new forest fires this summer, in the south-west of France, 18 March 2023. [EPA-EFE/CAROLINE BLUMBERG]