World‘Rethink the forest’ amid unprecedented wildfires: Return to ‘ancestral ways of managing the land’?

Stuart Norval speaks with Jean-Luc Gleyze, president of the Gironde Departmental Council, and Stéphane Delpeyrat-Vincent, a former firefighter who founded wildfire-prevention research firm WARUCENE. The fires in Gironde highlight the mounting difficulty of managing land as the world warms. From the emergency-response front line, Gleyze describes the blazes as a test of social solidarity and institutional coordination. Delpeyrat-Vincent offers a complementary perspective, prompting debate over whether ancestral approaches to land management should be reconsidered.