How mountain goat munchies help protect Spain and Portugal from ever more devastating and destructive wildfires

CGTN Europe

With wildfires more than doubling since 2003, the EU’s Life Landscape Fire Project is making a difference. Through controlled burns and mountain-goat grazing, flammable plants are cleared naturally.  #goats #eu #spain #portugal #wildfires

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00:00This isn't just a herd of goats, this is a mobile fire protection unit.

00:10They eat up the extra dry grass that is helping to fuel ever more extreme wildfires in the

00:17Portuguese mountains.

00:19This is part of a European funded initiative called a Life Project that is doing just that,

00:26saving lives here in Portugal.

00:29These goats aren't the only ones helping fight future forest fires, this is a Mirandesa Portuguese

00:35cow and they are great grazers too.

00:38They help rid the mountains of all this fuel that is helping these wildfires become more

00:44extreme and spread faster.

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