Spain flooding park to fight peat fire
China Daily | Updated: 2010-01-13 07:59
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A boat lies abandoned in a wetland gone dry in Las Tablas de Daimiel National Park, in Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. The government has begun flooding the environmentally valuable expanse of Spanish wetland in a bid to save it from an underground peat fire. AP |
MADRID: Hoping to save a dried Spanish wetland from an underground peat fire, the government has unleashed floodwaters onto an expanse of the marsh now under threat due to past water mismanagement.
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