CBC·3 min read·medium
A human-made forest is at the centre of France's raging wildfires
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Devastating wildfires in France are being exacerbated by the region's history of industrial forest management, which replaced natural wetlands with pine plantations. While climate change is the primary driver, experts note that the human-altered landscape has significantly increased fire vulnerability.
Photos and videos trickled in, mostly from firefighters already hard at work.
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