One year after France's Gironde wildfires, bark beetles attack forests
In the forest of La Teste-de-Buch, in south-western France, 3,500 hectares went up in flames last year. Since then, loggers have worked overtime, fighting a war on two fronts: to cut down and sell on the burnt wood for whatever it might still be good for, and also limit the spread of the bark beetle, a winged insect capable of colonising trees within a 10 to 20-kilometre radius.


