They seek to create a fire-fighting system: this year they have razed more than 6,000 hectares - Newsweek en Español

Congressman Héctor Herrera Núñez, president of the Board of Government and Political Coordination of the State Congress and member of the Morena Parliamentary Group, presented an initiative to reform the Sustainable Forest Development Act for the State of Durango. The proposal seeks to establish a State System for the Prevention and Combating of Forest Fires. According to the legislator, the purpose of the system is to improve coordination betwe…

MINAS DE MATAHAMBRE, Pinar del Río.— In the distance you can see the smoke, sometimes whiter, sometimes darker, according to the intensity of the fire. The hillyard in the north of the province of Pinar del Río has some of the most difficult transit land for peasants, forest workers and the Forest Guard Corps (CGB). Kilometers and kilometers of pine forests, in which the vegetation is thick and the fuel material is abundant. In fact, it has hard…

Forces of the Guard Corps and of the system of agriculture in Pinar del Río are redoubling the fight against the fire of very large proportions active for several days in the Arenales area, municipality Minas de Matahambre. By closing this information, the flames had devoured more than 2,900 hectares of forests, mostly pine forests.

More than 2,900 hectares of forests have been consumed in Arenales, Pinar del Río, while brigades and air assets try to control the flames after several days of intense combat.

Havana.- A fire of large proportions active for a week in areas of the Cuban province Pinar del Río (extreme west) has already consumed about 2,800 hectares of pine forests, in the municipalities of San Juan and Martínez and Minas de Matahambre, state media reported this Friday. To contain the spread of ...

#Cuba: The fire destroying thousands of hectares of forest in #PinarDelRio is spreading as authorities try to contain it.