wildfires
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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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Living with fire: Why the Pan-Amazon needs prevention, not just suppression
As El Niño intensifies, evidence from Bolivia, Brazil and Peru shows how Indigenous knowledge, community action and integrated fire management…
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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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How can better mapping of burned areas help tackle Southeast Asia’s wildfire crisis?
Over recent decades, the Southeast Asian region has faced persistent challenges from large-scale vegetation and peatland fires. These events have…
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Global Aridity Index and Potential Evapotranspiration Database: updated!
The index is based upon a fully parameterized geospatial implementation of the Penman-Monteith Equation, a standard methodology widely used globally.…
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IPCC report details catastrophe for planet as threats from climate change mount
Many natural landscapes are at the point of no return, and without action on climate change the planet will become…
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A perfect storm: Fire, haze and a global health crisis
Southeast Asian nations are preparing for the possibility of an environmental emergency, exacerbated by the health crisis brought on by…
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Tree love and lonely elephants, AI in restoration, and palm oil myths debunked
In Forests News last week: Palm oil; Smallholder expansion on the rise The assumption that major industry are solely responsible…
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Leopards on the loose, a planet inferno, and will fast food giants spark a Domino’s effect for climate change?
Your most popular post on Forests News last week: Agricultural intensification has fed the world, but are we healthier? …
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