Fire is a threat to Amazonia’s peoples and forests and is growing in response to climate change and ongoing habitat loss and degradation. Our research has shown:
- The impact of unprecedented megafires on trees and their carbon stocks in the months and years following a fire.
- How fire contributes to a widespread loss of biodiversity in remaining forests
- How solutions need to understand the different fire types and their drivers.
We work with many researchers and stakeholders in the Amazon, co-producing a policy brief to enhance the profile of forest degradation from fires in Brazil’s flagship policy, the Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Legal Amazon (PPCDAm). Climate change means that the risk of fires are growing in the coming decades, as highlighted by our film made in collaboration with firefighters and reserve managers.
See more on this topic in Society and Biodiversity.