Record-breaking wildfires in the world's largest continuous tropical wetland: Integrative fire management is urgently needed for both biodiversity and humans

LC Garcia, JK Szabo, F de Oliveira Roque… - Journal of environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract In the Brazilian Pantanal, wildfire occurrence has increased, reaching record highs
of over 40,000 km 2 in 2020. Smoke from wildfires worsened the situation of isolated, as well …

[HTML][HTML] A global outlook on increasing wildfire risk: current policy situation and future pathways

P Pandey, G Huidobro, LF Lopes, A Ganteaume… - Trees, Forests and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Aim to understand how wildfire risk policies are designed to mitigate 1 the impacts of
wildfires. Wildfires are a growing threat in many parts of the world, posing significant risks to …

[HTML][HTML] Contribution of the Amazon protected areas program to forest conservation

BS Soares-Filho, U Oliveira, MN Ferreira… - Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Established in 2002, the Amazon Protected Areas Program (ARPA) supports 120
Conservation Units (CUs) in the Brazilian Amazon, covering 62 Mha. Here, we quantified the …

Perspective: scientific gaps on forest fires in Brazilian protected areas

FMF Lucas, ECG Araujo, NC Fiedler… - Forest Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Brazil is in world news every year due to the occurrence of large forest fires in its
ecosystems. Although there is an evident need for environmental conservation in the …

Prioritising areas for wildfire prevention and post-fire restoration in the Brazilian Pantanal

PI Martins, LBC Belém, JK Szabo, R Libonati… - Ecological …, 2022 - Elsevier
In 2020, fires in the Pantanal, the world's largest continuous tropical wetland, made global
news. The flames destroyed almost one-third of the biome. Furthermore, 43% of the affected …

Determinants of fire impact in the Brazilian biomes

U Oliveira, B Soares-Filho, M Bustamante… - Frontiers in Forests …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
More and more, wildfires are raging in large parts of the world due to a warmer climate, more
frequent and severe droughts, and continued land-use changes. In Brazil, the weakening of …

[HTML][HTML] Prescribed burning reduces large, high-intensity wildfires and emissions in the Brazilian savanna

FLM Santos, J Nogueira, RAF Souza, RM Falleiro… - Fire, 2021 - mdpi.com
Brazil has recently (2014) changed from a zero-fire policy to an Integrated Fire Management
(IFM) program with the active use of prescribed burning (PB) in federal Protected Areas (PA) …

A near real-time web-system for predicting fire spread across the Cerrado biome

U Oliveira, B Soares-Filho, H Rodrigues, D Figueira… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Wildfires are aggravating due to climate change. Public policies need territorial intelligence
to prevent and promptly fight fires, especially in vast regions like Brazil. To this end, we have …

[HTML][HTML] Forest fragmentation and fires in the eastern Brazilian Amazon–Maranhão State, Brazil

CHL Silva-Junior, ATM Buna, DS Bezerra, OS Costa Jr… - Fire, 2022 - mdpi.com
Tropical forests provide essential environmental services to human well-being. In the world,
Brazil has the largest continuous area of these forests. However, in the state of Maranhão, in …

Deforestation and agricultural fires in South-West Pará, Brazil, under political changes from 2014 to 2020

B Jakimow, M Baumann, C Salomão… - Journal of Land Use …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The increasing deforestation and fires since 2019 raises concerns about the irreversible
destruction of the Brazilian Amazon. Our goal was to better understand these changes in …