Footage has emerged from Calais, France, of bulldozers demolishing a section of “the Jungle” refugee camp.

In the video, filmed last month, bulldozers can be seen moving in the camp and clearing makeshifts camps, built by volunteers and refugees.

French authorities have recently announced a plan of clearance of the south side of the camp that will be due in the next few days, leaving 3,393 homeless.

According to local charities, the area planned to be cleared is where the majority of the families in the camp live. It also has important community areas and facilities built by refugees and volunteer groups over the last few months.

This week huge areas of the refugee camp in Calais known as 'The Jungle' are due to be bulldozed.

The area planned to be cleared is where the majority of the families in the camp live, as well as many important community areas and facilities lovingly and time-consumingly built by refugees and volunteer groups over the last few months. These include:

- The Women and Children’s centre (supporting over 200 women and children)
- The newly built Youth Centre (supporting hundreds of young boys, many of whom are fleeing compulsory military service and are unaccompanied, alone and vulnerable)
- Three mosques
- One Church
- Three schools
- Jungle Books - the camp’s lovely library run by the amazing Mary
- The Good Chance Theatre (the dome)
- The Legal Centre
- The vaccination centre
- The Ashram Kitchen (and other aid distribution points and hot food distributions which serve over 2000 meals a day)