2.1 The burned areas

This is a map of Greece showing the distribution of the wildfires as patches of red. The scale on the bottom right-hand of the image indicates that 1 cm is equal to 50 kilometres. At the top of the image, there is a land mass labelled ‘Greece’, scattered across which there are 12 small red patches, the largest of which is located to the south-east corner and is labelled ‘Kalyvia fire’. To the east, there is a relatively small archipelago labelled Euboea, on which there is one small and two larger patches of red, the larger patches are labelled ‘Styra fire’ and ‘Aliveri fire’ respectively. To the south-west of this, there is a much larger archipelago labelled ‘Peloponnese’; from east to west, there are five large patches of red ranging from approximately 0.5 cm to 1 cm across, these are labelled ‘Ilia fires’, ‘Arcadia fires’, ‘Messinia fires, ‘Taygetos fire’ and ‘Pamon fire’ respectively. There are two additional smaller patches of red on this archipelago labelled ‘Areopolis fire’ and ‘Corinthia fires’. There are various smaller Greek islands scattered in the sea all around these land masses.

Colour photograph of a hilly area with black, charred trees positioned behind a high mesh wire fence. The scene is one of burnt devastation. Between the trees the land is bare and devoid of vegetation. Some limited vegetation has survived in the foreground. There is a concrete area in front of the fence.

Colour photograph of a hillside taken from the air. There is a road running up the hill. The bend in the road is central to the photograph. It winds its way down the hillside and divides the landscape into three hilly areas. The hillside is a brown, barren landscape with no vegetation apart from charred trees towards the background. The landscape is strewn with logs. A few pylons cross the central hill.