fire management
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Paamari: Reclaiming ancestral fire management in the Peruvian Amazon
Asháninka communities in Peru’s central Amazon are combining ancestral knowledge with satellite monitoring through PAAMARI to prevent wildfires. The community-led…
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Indigenous knowledge can improve AI models to manage fires, study finds
Wildfires could be more effectively managed if artificial intelligence (AI) models incorporated Indigenous knowledge more fully for landscape use around the world, according to a recent study. The AI-based quantitative frameworks that are used to help…
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Wet and Wild: Indonesian Forest Fires
When fires tore through peatlands in Sumatra, Indonesia, in June 2013, the immediate effects were devastatingly familiar. In just one…
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