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Tunisian wildfires scorch cork industry

Tunisian wildfires scorch cork industry

JIHED ABIDELLAOUI FOR cork collector Khaled Warhani, the wildfires that devastated part of northern Tunisia's lush woodland this summer were a warning of how the changing climate will hurt his livelihood. Though the fires were far worse in neighbouring Algeria, the blaze that raged through the forested hills around Ain Draham burned 1,000 hectares (2,470 acres) of woodland, including many of the cork oak trees that local people harvest each autumn. "When the forest burns, we have nowhere else to work and will have nothing to eat," said Warhani, who had laden his donkey with thick, springy cork bark to…
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