Women train to fight fire with fire in Portugal

Paredes De Coura, Portugal (AFP) Feb 9, 2024

Women from around the world gathered in northwest Portugal this week to practise a traditional technique of deliberately burning land to prevent the kind of wildfires – intensified by climate change – that have killed hundreds across Europe.

In the hills above the Portuguese town of Paredes de Coura, women used drip torches to set fire to thorny patches of scrubland, creating grazing areas
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