The economy of the “toast with avocado” is reflected in the fireworks: brushing bush no longer pays

“I don’t remember the last time I Comi Cabrito” – and “this is a social change that is reflected in the fireworks.” Landscape architect proposes to give 100 euros per hectare to those who keep their woods below 50 centimeters.

Fires They continue to affect the country this Friday, especially to the North, with the fireworks in Penafiel, Porto, and Ponte da Barca, in Viana do Castelo, still with two active fronts and housing at risk, to be protected by operational operational.

In Arouca, the fire that has been going on for days and had spread to the neighboring municipalities of Castelo de Paiva and Cinfães, is dominated thanks to the intervention of 426 operational and 157 terrestrial media – but had over 48 kilometers of perimeter and consumed an area of over 4500 hectares of forest.

A, landscape architect Henrique Pereira dos Santos regrets the lack of proper forest management, with a different perspective.

“I don’t remember the last time I Comi Cabrito“Said the architect.

“It’s easier to find people who remember the last time they ate avocado toast than a goat,” he admits, and “this is a social change that is reflected in fires.”

The expert remembers the days of old, when the population itself “erased the fire before the firefighters arrived.” Today, “what is at stake is a change in economy and society which makes much of the territory not managed. And it is not managed because there is no economy to pay this management, there is no return, ”he complains.

Before, “the bush was all brushed to the cattle bed to stay the lands. And This disappeared. Not only are there much less land to be made, but the manure has been replaced by fertilizers and is not worth it brushing it, ”he says.

As a solution, Pereira dos Santos proposes to pay 100 euros per hectare To all the people who keep their bushs below 50 centimeters. Who does it “is providing us with a service, which so far we have not valued because it was a consequence of an economy that died. Either we pay or the people don’t generate the land, he said.

The landscape architect, who takes the blame of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and throws them to the Prime Minister or the Ministry of Agriculture, also defends the Professionalization of Firefighters.

“We need some firefighters who say ‘this is not with me, because my mission is to combat forest fire.’ Civil Protection is with others. If there is no this, this need we have to have people fighting forest fire in the middle where it is necessary, it will be behind the priority of saving lives and houses and everyone realizes it.”