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https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/03/brazil-declares-environmental-emergency-ahead-of-2025-fire-season/>
"Brazil has declared a nationwide environmental emergency to prevent another
devastating fire season in 2025. In 2024, record-breaking blazes scorched
millions of hectares of native vegetation in the Amazon Rainforest and other
biodiversity-rich biomes.
The measure, decreed by environment minister Marina Silva on Feb. 27, gives
authorities extra powers and resources to nip wildfires in the bud before they
spread uncontrollably.
Brazil’s federal government will hire an additional 250 federal firefighters
and give six of the eight Amazonian states 45 million reais ($8 million) to
bolster state-level fire brigades. The state of emergency is set to last until
somewhere between August 2025 and April 2026, depending on the region.
“This is a coordinated government effort to assess risk before disaster
strikes,” João Paulo Capobianco, executive secretary at the environment
ministry, said in a press conference. “The set of measures will help reduce the
risk of wildfires across the country.”
Ane Alencar, science director at the Amazon Environmental Research Institute in
Brazil, told
Mongabay that the move “lays the groundwork for early preventive
action and highlights the need to organize brigades before the dry season
begins. But for these efforts to be truly effective, state governments must
also do their part.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
