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Vacant posts and unmanaged scrub set the size of Spain’s worst fire
["Antonio O'Mullony", 'Senior Editor', 'Brussels Signal']
Brussels Signal
The unions CCOO and CGT said on June 10 that 30 per cent of the posts on the operation’s staffing schedule were vacant.
The Ministry for the Ecological Transition recorded €143.8 million of prevention spending in 2024 across the administrations that supplied data.
A CajaMar monograph on forest management in Spain identifies insufficient management of woodland, rather than any shortage of natural resources, as the underlying problem.
Environment Commissioner Jessika Roswall told agriculture ministers on May 26 that it did “not plan any new initiatives on forest management”.
The General Statistics on Forest Fires run back to 1961.