Loulé and ANP|WWF join forces to create fire-resilient villages
Project will focus on five villages in Loulé The municipal council of Loulé has teamed up with environmental organisation ANP|WWF to launch a project aimed at making five villages in
Albufeira warns locals of wildfire and open well hazards
Awareness campaign carried out in July and August in Albufeira In an effort to make the borough safer and “more resilient,” Albufeira’s municipal council carried out an extensive awareness campaign
56 youths helped monitor Loulé forest during summer
Over the last two months, the youngsters engaged in forest surveillance as part of fire prevention campaign. In the months of July and August, and for the 17th consecutive year,
Two Portuguese emigrés on holiday in Madeira cited for the fire that raged for almost two weeks
Two Portuguese emigrés on holiday in Madeira have been made official suspects in the investigation into the causes of the fire that ravaged the island for over 10 days this
Assessment report on Madeira wildfire “urgent before autumn rains”
Shoring up work must be done in time, warns ZERO Portuguese environmental association ZERO warns that the first steps after the Madeira island wildfire should be to draw up an
Madeira fire declared extinguished after 13 controversy-filled days of combat
Over 5,100 hectares charred and blackened; some of it unique heritage landscape The wildfire that began on August 14 in the mountains of Madeira’s Ribeira Brava municipality was finally declared
Madeira wildfire “completely dominated”
Now comes period for political fall-out; calls for inquiry into what went wrong After almost two nerve-wracking weeks, the wildfire that took hold of Madeira on August 14, refusing to
Residents of Madeira’s Fajã das Galinhas “cannot go home” following 11-day wildfire
“Most of them don’t want to anyway” – mayor The devastating consequences of Madeira’s 11-day long wildfire (still not completely extinguished) are rapidly coming clear: Fajã das Galinhas, for example,
Madeira’s wildfire finally under control
Firefighters in ‘dampening down’ phase; expect ‘small reignitions’ The fire that raged on several fronts in Madeira for 11 days is finally under control and in the dampening down phase,
Journalists denounce “climate of pressures and restrictions” regarding Madeira wildfires
Portugal’s Syndicate of Journalists has denounced what it calls a “climate of pressures and restrictions” which it says have been imposed by the regional government on its members who are