Prevention key to reducing wildfire risk in Greece: WWF

ATHENS, May 12 (Xinhua) -- Between 2016 and 2020, Greece allocated 83.95 percent of its total state expenditure on fighting wildfires and only 16.05 percent on preventing them, the environmental organization WWF Greece told an online press conference on Thursday.

In a new report, the Greek chapter of the World Wildlife Fund, in cooperation with the Mediterranean Institute for Investigative Reporting (MIIR), summed up the findings of a two-year survey of the financing of Greece's forest fire management strategy.