Firewood scam: Three sentenced for €100,000 website fraud in France The scammers stole €30,000 on a single website alone, and took advantage of a firewood shortage to trick customers with too-good-to-be-true offers
Hundreds of trees stolen from private woods in south France A sawmill in the Catalonia region is suspected of cutting down the trees – some of which were hundreds of years old – and taking the trunks for timber
Traps on French forest paths endanger bikers and walkers Cables tied across pathways and hidden planks spiked with nails are causing serious injury and even death for bikers and walkers in the French countryside Severe forest fire alerts across south of France Tiny wasps could control boxtree moth Hear blackbirds singing in gardens and woods this summer