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.
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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.