Avaliação do Manejo Integrado do Fogo em Unidades de Conservação Federais na Amazônia

Abstract

Environmental degradation is caused by human actions, mainly because it is located in regions in the process of urbanization and without planning. And the creation of federal conservation units was necessary as an instrument of public policies for the maintenance of environmental and ecosystem services. Fire is also an important regulator of ecosystem sustainability, the maintenance of plant life, soil nutrient availability and biological diversity. Thus, the burning of vast regions of standing tropical forests arises as an unintended consequence of current land use practices, and the fires in rural and urban areas in Brazil reveal the dramatic and almost routine situation of the population. To this end, the present study aims to evaluate the management instrument called 'Integrated Fire Management' (IFM) in the Federal Conservation Units in the Amazon. One of the negative points raised in this study, which limits the effectiveness of Integrated Fire Management actions in conservation units, is the low workforce to manage fire prevention actions, with the COVID-19 Pandemic pointed out as a negative factor for the execution of several fire management actions. Finally, we observed that the guidelines of the Integrated Fire Management proposed by ICMBio are under development, but with very limited social participation, as opposed to adaptive management.