Exchange of knowledge about fires and burnings in search of integrated fire management in the IT Araribóia/MA and surroundings

Authors

  • Ana Rosa Marques Instituto Brasileiro de Meio Ambiente e Recursos Naturais Renováveis (Ibama), SUPES/Maranhão, Brasil
  • R. C Martins Instituto Brasileiro de Meio Ambiente e Recursos Naturais Renováveis (Ibama), SUPES/Maranhão, Brasil
  • A. B Amorim Instituto Brasileiro de Meio Ambiente e Recursos Naturais Renováveis (Ibama), SUPES/Maranhão, Brasil

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37002/biodiversidadebrasileira.v10i1.1512

Keywords:

Indigenous people, settled, forest fires, methodologies participatory

Abstract

This work brings the experience of the Indigenous Land (IT) Araribóia and surrounding municipalities, as a way to minimize the environmental impacts caused by the high rate of fires that this area has presented, threatening the conservation of the Amazon rainforest and the survival of the indigenous people. Guajajara and the isolated Awa-Guajá peoples living in the protected area in question. This IT is located in the south of Maranhão, an area of 413 thousand hectares, with an estimated population of 13 thousand inhabitants (IBGE, 2012). In 2017, a territorial protection plan was prepared involving the State Coordination of the National Center for Forest Fire Prevention and Prevention (PREVFOGO) and the Environmental Education Center of the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) and several institutions: National Indian Foundation (FUNAI), National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform (INCRA), Battalion Environmental Police (BPA), with local partnerships, such as: indigenous associations, rural unions, civil society and municipal governments. The objective was to sensitize indigenous and settlement community leaders with the formation of multipliers in the prevention and environmental education in the theme of burning and forest fires, encouraging the use of sustainable practices, conservation and sustainable use of natural resources and integrated fire management. The eight workshops took place in 2017 and 2018, involving 3 regions of TI Araribóia and its surrounding municipalities. 379 indigenous community leaders and land reform settlements participated. Participatory methodologies, group dynamics, spoken map, survey and visualization of problems and possible solutions were used from the construction of analysis and demonstration matrices for the implementation of agroforestry system. As already identified results, we have: elaboration of 41 action plans with themes related to the prevention and combat of forest fires, expansion of the articulation and communication between the involved institutions, increasing the level of effectiveness of the actions developed in the territory. Implementation of nurseries of forest species seedlings at TI Araribóia and planting in some spring areas. In addition to information received through informal reports from local residents about the decrease in fires in 2018.

Author Biography

Ana Rosa Marques, Instituto Brasileiro de Meio Ambiente e Recursos Naturais Renováveis (Ibama), SUPES/Maranhão, Brasil

Graduada em Geografia, Uniso 1987, Especialização em formação de Educadores ambientais Unesp Botucatu, 2000, Mestre em Educação Unesp Bauru, 2003, Doutora em Geografia Unesp PP, 2012. Analista Ambiental do Ibama desde 2005, ponto focal do NEA/Ibama/MA e Professora Adjunta da Unversidade Estadual do Maranhão desde 2006, do departamento de História e Geografia. Atua em programa de proteção territorial para as terras Indígenas, com o foco na diminuição de incêndios e queimadas em parceira com a coordenação estadual do Prevfogo/MA desde o ano de 2016.

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Published

2020-07-27