When Elias Tziritis visits pockets of Greece scorched and scarred by wildfires, he worries about the future. “You start thinking about your children or grandchildren,” the environmentalist says. “But as a scientist, you cannot speak in human timelines. You must think in nature’s timeline.” Kalavrita-born Tziritis is Greece’s World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) coordinator of actions for forest fires. It is his job to help monitor and advocate for the Mediterranean landscape. He started working with the Swedish not-for-profit in 1995 as a volunteer before becoming staff in 2004. But his obsession …
