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"The Redondo Jiménez report provides a precise account of the state of our forests but does not, unfortunately, propose practical solutions either for protecting them or for ensuring that they are monitored.
As an elected representative of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region, I was appalled by the forest fires which, this summer, destroyed more than 60 000 hectares of land in France, mainly in the Var and Haute-Corse administrative departments.
It turns out that the vast majority of these fires are of criminal origin. Penal sanctions against the arsonists and those behind such acts should therefore be strengthened.
Everyone involved, all of whom have also agreed upon the need to step up prevention and to strengthen the protection of forests as a national heritage that we have to administer jointly, wants to see the criminalisation of these acts.
We also believe that human activities carried on in our forests need to be considered a public service of general interest and that, given their non-profitability, they therefore need to be supported financially. Forest owners should also be offered tax breaks and financial incentives to encourage them to clear brushwood and carry out maintenance work. ‘Private forester-firefighters’ could do this work.
There we have a genuine environmental policy.
I should like to conclude by asking a question : will France, like Portugal, be entitled to aid from the new European Solidarity Fund?"@en1
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