Fires and more fires.
Another ridge of mountains is burning in Portugal, aerial support from Spain has arrived, but the fire is uncontrollable. The Environment minister went to the public television, to say that the prevention has to be more effective and that the fireman have to be supported more properly (in Portugal almost all the fireman are volunteer, and don't have special training), but we all know that is just a political intention and that when these fire is extinguish, those words will be forgotten and the country will stay the same 'bananas country', it's sad but true. All the governments have made promises of cleaning the forest, during election campaign, but none have accomplished those promises. In Portugal, when the summer is over and the fires vanish, the people forget about all of these until the next year, until the next fire.
Nobody complains, nobody gives a dam, even if Portugal is losing one of its best natural resources, the forest. The police never catches the people that start the fires, and the wood is sold at very low cost. The area that is consumed by the fire takes decades to recover, and again nobody gives a dam.
The government says the plan against fires has to be well thought, because there's very little money, but all of the ministers use expensive cars, fly around the country on helicopters ... there's no explanation possible.
Portugal is (as always) the example of what shouldn't be done.
Unfortunately