A record one hundred local volunteers climbed a mountain on Sunday, February 2, to begin replanting the forests of the Sierra de Mijas, decimated by wildfires in 2022.
Volunteers selflessly turned up for the exhausting hike from Mijas to one of its highest peaks, loaded with pots of saplings, gardening tools, and water to get the forests back regrowing again.
The World Wildlife Fund Malaga hopes this initiative will begin the slow process of repopulating the mountains with the necessary trees to continue cleaning the air of the Costa del Sol and encourage the fauna, such as the wild boars that now roam the streets of Mijas and Fuengirola, to return to their natural habitat.
The volunteers were made up of a 50/50 mix of local Spanish and foreign residents, including a troop of Boy Scouts and the Rotary Club, accompanied by WWF specialists, guiding them on where and how to plant the different species of trees in such a way as to slow the spread of possible future fires.
Source: Euroweeklynews.com
