Greek forests

The Greek forests can be divided into two large branches, the temperate forests and the mediterranean forests. In the temperate forests there is the mixed Balkan forest, and the mixed forest of the Rhodope Mountains, these are on the border with Bulgaria, helping to form a microclimate.

In mediterranean forests find the deciduous forest of Illyria, there is also the mixed forest of Mount Pindo, the Cretan Mediterranean forest, the sclerophyllous forest of the Aegean.

Each one has its special and unrepeatable fauna and flora that can satisfy the most demanding nature lover.

Deforestation, whether to urbanize, to use wood, or to create fields for agriculture or herding animals, is threatening forests in general, but especially forests. Mediterranean coast. Prolonged droughts, heat waves, global warming, everything is undermining the forests, the adaptability of forests is being depleted, and if these, which are the lungs of the planet, are affected, everything is recent since it is a chain.

Last year, between April 14 and 17, an international workshop was held in Athens with the name of “Adaptation to climate change in the management and conservation of Mediterranean forest".

The forests of the coast and islands, as well as the mountainous forests of southern Greece, they are an example of threatened forests. It is time to begin, to establish guidelines to protect the different Greek forests. Work is currently being done to modernize the infrastructure against fires, since in summer they destroy the different forests.