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Villagers flee their homes with their belongings a day after gunmen killed 16 people in their village of Tiortyui, some 30 kilometres away from Makurdi, in Nigeria's central Benue state. Eight people were killed in another attack in a village nearby, bringing the toll to 24, as violence caused by heavily armed criminal gangs intensifies across the region. IMAGES
Lisbon, Oct 17 (EFE) .- (Camera: Paula Fernández) In 2017, fires took the lives of more than a hundred people and destroyed 440,000 hectares in Portugal. Now, wood burned in those fires has been turned into display furniture to warn of an environmental tragedy that continues to destroy the Portuguese forests every year.FOOTAGE OF THE EXHIBITION.SOUNDBITES OF ANGELA MORGADO, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF ANP / WWF.Translation:1.- "The base of the pieces is burned wood that comes from the regions most affected by the fires of 2017. Obviously, in the execution, he had to use another type of wood, but that was the basic idea."2.- "Portugal has been one of the most affected countries, mainly in 2017. In addition to many hectares of forest and many losses in environmental terms and biodiversity, many lives were lost in Portugal, something that had never happened before, with fires of this size."3.- "On the one hand, one of the things that are lacking is prevention, which is to bet on sustainable forest management, on mosaic landscapes, which combines production forests with agriculture, with pastures ... The more diverse the activities in a certain place, the more resilient that landscape becomes to fire. If we have populations of only one species, without corridors, with nothing, logically it is easier for fires to spread."4.- "I think that no one is indifferent to this exhibition. It is very beautiful, it is the right space for this exhibition. I think that the pieces here gained a much more interesting symbolic dimension. And I think that art and culture have to do with the environment and with heritage. We cannot forget that there is a lot of art inspired by nature. "
Misgav Am (Israel), Oct 9 (EFE / EPA) .- (CAMERA: Atef Safadi) Around five thousand people have been evacuated in Israel and the occupied West Bank due to several fires in various locations in the north and center of the country due to a heatwave, police sources reported.
St. Helena/Calistoga, Sep 29 (EFE/EPA).- Tens of thousands of California's Napa and Sonoma valleys' residents on Monday were forced to flee their homes as wildfires fanned by strong winds ripped through the world-famous wine region. (Camera: JOHN MABANGLO).SHOT LIST: FIREFIGHTERS TRY TO CONTROL THE FAST-MOVING GLASS FIRE IN ST. HELENA AND CALISTOGA, CALIFORNIA, US.
Emergency services battle to contain fires which broke out around Spain's Costa Blanca resorts on Sunday, forcing hundreds of residents and tourists to flee.
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