Video: Greece’s burning issue
Regular forest fires in Athens raise fears the city’s woodlands will disappear.
Published On 29 Sep 2009
Large areas of forest and farmland in Greece were destroyed by a blaze on the edge of Athens, the capital, in August.
Forest fires regularly damage Greece, but in the run-up to next month’s elections, politicans are promising to do more to prevent these disasters.
With the fires continuing to occur, Barnaby Phillips asks whether enough lessons have been learnt.
Source: Al Jazeera