FILE PHOTO: A pyrocumulus cloud forms as smoke rises from a wildfire as seen from a cemetery in the village of Vilarmel, Lugo area, Galicia region, Spain, August 16, 2025. REUTERS/Mikel Konate/File Photo
PARAFITA, Spain (Reuters) -Javier Fernandez Perez recalls how residents of his hamlet used to burn undergrowth during the winter to help prevent the sort of huge wildfires that scorched Spain's northwestern Galicia region last summer.
With hotter and drier weather stoking larger and more destructive fires, experts and locals alike are calling for such fire breaks and other forestry management methods and incentives to urgently be implemented to avoid a repeat in years to come.
