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Fires in environmental protection area in Para rise 60% in a year, according to APA

10/04/2012

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The number of fires within the Environmental Protection Area (APA) Triunfo do Xingu, in São Félix do Xingu, in southeast Pará, this year exceeds by 60% the records of fires in the region during the dry season last year. Between July and August, there were more than 2400 hotspots in conservation unit. According to environmental tax that operate in the region, the situation in the APA should only improve in two months.

The conservation area has been treated as a priority by environmental agencies by high vulnerability to fires that threaten rare species of fauna that exist only at this location and are threatened with extinction, such as the spider monkey-faced-white, the blue macaw large-and jaguar.

Normally, the drought affects the municipality Para July until the end of November. The severity of incidents over the years has caused environmental agencies decide to keep, since last year, fixed posts of firefighters in the region during the peak months of drought. Teams with at least 15 agents of the National Center for the Prevention and Combat of Forest Fires (Prevfogo), have been following and fighting fires on duty scheme. From early July until 26 August, IBAMA agents were able to control 32 forest fires.

Added to the action in the APA and in the towns of Soldier and Falcon, 60 km from São Félix, the firefighters were able to prevent the destruction of more than 4500 hectares of primary forests. Diego Guimarães, coordinator Prevfogo in southeastern Pará, added that the balance is the result of 11 days of combat in hard to reach areas between 15 and 26 September.

The fires are the worst and most common consequences of drought in these regions, as São Félix do Xingu, which have agricultural production as their main economic activity. In the case of São Félix, which has one of the largest herds in the country, the properties are within the Apa Triunfo do Xingu and the pastures are prepared from burnt without any prevention.

"Often preventive measures are not taken deliberately. Are not made firebreaks between grazing areas and areas of primary forests, "said Guimaraes, warning that these would be the minimum measures necessary. The firebreaks are made with the deforestation of areas surrounding forests to prevent the spread of fire.

"As these measures have not, the fire just past the pasture into the woods. We have records of fires that last between 15 to 20 days, from property to property, "he said. According to Guimarães, not all farmers complain of burning on their property, "because vai breaking areas of forest and grass forest takes up more space." The new areas created with environmental crime end up being converted into areas for the production of animals.

In dry weather, the flames spread easily in pastures that dominate the landscape surrounding the unit and hit the woods.
Guimarães says that in these regions and periods, fires are caused solely by human action.



Source: Environment Brazil

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