{"id":724516,"date":"2026-08-02T14:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T14:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/724516\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T14:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T14:28:08","slug":"disappearing-villages-leave-europe-in-era-of-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/724516\/","title":{"rendered":"Disappearing villages leave Europe in era of fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Pirac\u00e9s said the solution to Spain\u2019s wildfire problem required a complete rethink of how rural Spain is managed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClearly, we have a climate problem and there is a problem with the state of our rural environment. The solution has to come from the whole society, to have more people living in the countryside and recognise and reward the work we do here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOtherwise, we are going to lose the countryside, lose most of our forests to fire and be left with nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, short of addressing climate change, Dr Smith warned that policy changes might be too little too late.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think they are realising there\u2019s very little we can do now on the ground in terms of firefighting and prevention,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUltimately, the climate\u2019s going to continue to change and that\u2019s the one thing they are focusing on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Pirac\u00e9s said the solution to Spain\u2019s wildfire problem required a complete rethink of how rural Spain is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[556,1397,27525,819,8170,90,640,5438,56,54,55,8948,231],"class_list":["post-724516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-farming","tag-france","tag-global-warming","tag-science","tag-spain","tag-standard","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildfires","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}