Land Life, a reforestation company based in Amsterdam with operations in Spain and California, issued a public statement following a forest fire that wiped out 35,000 acres of land in the Northeastern region of Spain. Aside from the environmental toll on the local community, over 2,000 people from the area were evacuated according to Protos.
The carnage, which took place this past Monday on July 18, began after a contractor was helping carry out a project in Ateca. A spark was created while using a “retro-spider excavator” to lay preliminary groundwork for a winter tree-planting — the tiny blip was enough to ignite nearby shrubbery, ultimately causing the devastating fire.
