We are on fire again. The wildfire summer has started very early, driven by extreme heatwaves that have added to an abundant forest mass, with great fire potential, due to the rainy spring and winter that preceded us. In Almeria, the fires have been tragic, with a very sad human cost. Social alarm is, therefore, entirely justified.

More than half of Catalonia is forest. These are forest areas that over the last century have grown where there were once fields, crops, and agricultural activity that, over time, has been abandoned. And nature has reclaimed the land. These are young and dense forests that have occupied the space left by rural exodus and agricultural abandonment, which over the last century have pushed the population of villages towards cities.