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Pine disease has already contaminated more than 95,000 hectares in the CAV
  • More than 35,000 hectares of very damaged pine forests and 60,000 other areas affected by the disease are already in the CAV, affected by the spillage of fungi that destroy trees. The area affected by this disease has doubled in recent months, according to the Economic Development Minister of the Basque Government, Arantxa Tapia.
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Eldiario.es states that the affected area in the CAV is as large as 133,000 football fields. As you will recall, the Basque Government and the Basque deputies want to fumigate pine trees with cuprous oxide, but the Spanish Ministry of the Environment has denied them permission to do so by air and now the Basque institutions want fumigation to be done by land.

Cuprous oxide is intended to be used experimentally on 1,050 hectares and fumigation can then be extended to other locations.

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