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Climate change and monoculture are causing increasingly dangerous forest fires in Portugal - and the comeback of an almost forgotten profession. Suddenly, the country urgently needs goatherds to keep the fire-prone undergrowth short. A visit to a place where bleating means hope
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Luis Fontinha doesn't forget the smell of the fire because it reminds him of the worst day of his life. In October 2017, the largest forest fire in the country's history raged in central Portugal - one of the largest ever recorded in Europe
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The goat projects are more than a drop in the bucket. Every goat increases the chance that a fire will suffocate because its food has been eaten away
