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Three new coronavirus cases confirmed on Kef yesterday by EODY.
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Greece to Modernize Aerial Firefighting Fleet After Record Fire Season
Greece announced a plan this week to spend 1.7 billion euros on modernizing the country’s aerial firefighting capabilities in a parliamentary session where Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis floated the plan that was unanimously approved by the government that would see investment made in several Viking Scooper aircraft in addition to increasing the number of available SEAT aircraft and helicopters used during the country’s fire season that has this year burned more acres and caused more damage than any years prior.
https://www.aerialfiremag.com/greece-to-modernize-aerial-firefighting-fleet-after-record-fire-season/
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Once again, summer has brought death to a number of elderly swimmers around Greece, the latest being an elderly female who passed away this morning off Lepeda beach, Lixouri.
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Life as a vet helping reconstruct the faces of poached rhinos
Dr Johan Marais is one of the few ‘wild vets’ that can help give rhinos brand new faces
Dr Johan Marais spends his days reconstructing the faces of several rhinos that have been left barely alive in fields across South Africa due to savage attacks from poachers.
Quite often the doctor finds himself dealing with wildlife that has been shot, cut open or wounded with unknown instruments by those looking to smuggle its horns.
https://www.independent.co.uk/stop-the-illegal-wildlife-trade/johan-marais-poaching-rhinos-face-reconstruction-b1878376.html