By combining traditional land knowledge with digital dashboards, fire-risk indices, and smart grazing tools like GPS collars, we’re helping local actors take proactive steps to defend their landscapes before the flames ignite.

The challenge we face:

• Across Southern Europe, wildfires are no longer isolated disasters, they are becoming a seasonal crisis.
• Rising temperatures, longer droughts, and increasingly unpredictable weather patterns are turning forests into fuel.
• Rural depopulation has led to less land management and greater vegetation build-up, making fire outbreaks more intense and harder to control.
• In recent years, countries like Portugal, Spain, and Greece have experienced some of the worst wildfire seasons on record, resulting in loss of lives, destruction of ecosystems, and the displacement of rural communities.
• Growing threats affect not only the natural landscape, but also the social and economic fabric of rural regions. Agriculture, forestry, tourism, and basic safety are all at risk.
• Local communities remain under-equipped and under-supported.