"Scapegoating" in action. Often lower that it could be expected, because wildfires are just a crime, and to understand crimes you must follow the money. Eucal

"Scapegoating" in action. Often lower that it could be expected, because wildfires are just a crime, and to understand crimes you must follow the money. Eucaliptus plantations are --often-- [1] spared in wildfires, because: they have a proprietary (that could know the arsonist), aren't valuable wood to furniture (are useless as cheap smoked wood), resprout soon, and wouldn't be turned into pastures in any case. The arsonist can't benefit economically of it in any way, and could made some undesirable enemies. [1] Often but not always. Last years the traditional reasons have mutated. Criminals had started to target Eucaliptus just for creating chaos or economical damage. As scapegoat to blame them for their own crimes, there is often a previous campaign to paint a target on the tree by ecological reasons and blame Eucaliptus in the media as alien species, etc... not much later, half of Portugal starts burning a Saturday at 3am.