Friday, September 28, 2007

News (non-OCF): Greek wildfire recovery

Since we have a sizable Greek population at the three schools here, I though you'd be interested:

Greek recovery 'to take decades'
A gutted olive grove in the village of Artemida, southern Greece. File photo

Large areas of southern Greece were badly burnt by the fires
The environmental charity WWF has said it will take at least two decades for forests to grow back in the areas of Greece destroyed by the recent fires...


Source: BBC News
Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7017389.stm

Our hopes and prayers go out to all those who were affected.

-Alex

1 comments:

John Stonestreet said...

Thank you, Alex, for drawing our attention and prayers to this profound tragedy that effects the families and extended families of so many of us.

- John