As French firefighters rush to contain the fires raging in the southwest of the country, a political debate is growing over conflicting codes on forest management.
While firefighters say brushwood has to be gotten rid of to avoid forest fires, forest rangers say it should not be destroyed if protective species use it as their habitat.
FRANCE 24's Angela Diffley tells us more.
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