Can animals help us prevent wildfires in Europe? How can #grazing help protect our forests? Wildfires destroy up to 500,000 hectares of forest across the Mediterranean every year – an area equivalent to half the island of Cyprus. Scientific studies show that forest fire damage is likely to increase in the future due to climate change and the lack of 'fuel management', i.e. not cleaning forest vegetation and fallen branches below the trees, which end up working as combustion fuel, in abandoned rural areas. In Catalonia, Spain, the LIFE AgroForAdapt project has been investigating how livestock farming can be combined with forestry to reduce a wooded landscape’s vulnerability to fires. Watch our latest video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeYdlZ4onpE&t #europeanunion #grazing #wildfires #farming #livestock #games