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To keep wildfires at bay in Catalonia, herders enlist goats and their voracious appetites to reshape the countryside Photography by Albert Gea Reporting by Albert Gea and Horaci Garcia Mataro, spain Reuters Published 15 minutes ago Share Save for later Please log in to bookmark this story. Log In Create Free Account

Amid a symphony of tinkling bells, some 300 black, brown and dappled goats trot along a paved road in Spain’s northeastern Catalonia region, stopping every now and then to nibble with gusto on the dry shrubs lining the edge of a forest.

The herd wandering from town to town is part of a pilot project set up in the city of Mataro, which forms part of a broader European Union-funded effort to mitigate the risk of wil

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