Sharjah24 – AFP: Nearly a year after Greece's second-largest island of Evia was devastated by some of the worst wildfires in the country's history, nature is making a slow comeback.

Grass is growing on blackened mountainsides under the carcasses of burnt trees and birds are singing again.

And while the woods and meadows that once produced some of Greece's best honey will likely need two decades to recover, experts say the best method is to let nature do the heavy lifting itself.

In two weeks last August, more than 46,000 hectares went up in smoke on Evia -- 80 kilometres (50 miles) east of Athens -- laying waste to homes, pine forests, olive groves, beehives and livestock after a prolonged heatwave.