Almost a third of Italian areas
consumed by wildfires this year has been in nature reserves and
national parks, the Legambiente environmentalist group said
Monday. Some 35,000 hectares of 'protected' flora and fauna
zones have been destroyed by the fires, often started by the
mafia and other arsonists, it said. Sicily, Campania and
Calabria are the worst-hit regions, it said. Fires have ravaged
Italy this summer, most of them the work of the so-called
eco-mafia or other arsonists, including firefighters looking to
create work for themselves.
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