swathes of forest, a third of the island s territory. with the forest burned, there s a real danger of erosion and flooding when the winter rains come. these men are using the dead wood to make makeshift terraces to try to stop that happening. the effects of these fires will be felt here for years to come. hello. this man, who works for the world wildlife fund, says mega fires will happen again and again unless there s more focus on prevention. if you ask our colleagues in spain, portugal, italy, turkey, they re going to explain to you that the new trend in forest fires is mega fires. the mega fires are affected by climate change. these forests should
change? yes. yes. - in the trees. is this climate change? yes. yes. the - in the trees. is this climate | change? yes. yes. the heat wave? yeah. change? yes. yes. the heat wave? yeah. it change? yes. yes. the heat wave? yeah. it was - change? yes. yes. the heat wave? yeah. it was very - wave? yeah. it was very difficult wave? yeah. it was very difficult for wave? yeah. it was very difficult for us. - wave? yeah. it was very difficult for us. the - wave? yeah. it was very difficult for us. the first | difficult for us. the first time that i came here, i cried. because they re all over, fires, all over. here, there, there, up there, any other mountain, the other mountain. oh, my god. mountain, the other mountain. oh, my god- oh, my god. the raging flames destroyed oh, my god. the raging flames destroyed huge oh, my god. the raging flames destroyed huge swathes - oh, my god. the raging flames destroyed huge swathes of - destroyed huge swathes of forest, a third of the island
with the forest burned, there s a real danger of erosion and flooding when the winter rains come. these men are using the dead wood to make makeshift terraces to try to stop that happening. the effects of these fires will be felt here for years to come. hello. this man, who works for the world wildlife fund, says mega fires will happen again and again unless there s more focus on prevention. if you ask our colleagues in spain, portugal, italy, turkey, they re going to explain to you that the new trend in forest fires is mega fires. the mega fires are affected by climate change. these forests should eventually regenerate, but it ll take years
all? what we re seeing now is the same thing we ve seen the last few falls. it kind of feels like every month ending in r. we have these big wildfires in california happening. what s happening now is the rains are delayed. so basically when the winter rains show up, that kind of ends the fire season in california. the longer they wait to arrive the dryer and dryer things get. and it s like the night is darkest just before dawn. like the atmosphere and the environment will continue to dry out as the rains wait longer and longer to arrive. and then simultaneously the conditions that are producing the extreme red flag environment, the santa ana winds that are kind of in record breaking territory and coming up through the mountains and going through the hills and just keeping everything really dry and the santa ana winds and the