A shared perspective on managing Amazonian sustainable‐use reserves in an era of megafires

Spínola, Jackeline Nóbrega; Silva, Maria Jociléia Soares da; Silva, Jose Risonei Assis da; Barlow, Jos; Ferreira, Joice

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“…Management areas exhibited fires in 35%, and reserves presented fires in 10% of cases. This pattern is expected, because fire is used as a tool, and may be a way to ensure food security by many traditional populations, such as those living in sustainable use reserves or indigenous areas (Mistry et al, 2016;Nóbrega et al, 2020). However, it is remarkable that 50% of all fires observed during the ASO 2017-2019 period, and 40% of the ASO 2020 fires, occurred in only 29 PAs, all under the High Alert and Alert categories: four located in Bolivia, one in Paraguay and the remaining in Brazil, representing just 0.63% of all PAs.…”

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An alert system for Seasonal Fire probability forecast for South American Protected Areas

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Timely spatially explicit warning of areas with high fire occurrence probability is an important component of strategic plans to prevent and monitor fires within South American (SA) Protected Areas (PAs). In this study, we present a five-level alert system, which combines both climatological and anthropogenic factors, the two main drivers of fires in SA. The alert levels are: High Alert, Alert, Attention, Observation and Low Probability. The trend in the number of active fires over the past three years and the accumulated number of active fires over the same period were used as indicators of intensification of human use of fire in that region, possibly associated with ongoing land use/land cover change (LULCC). An ensemble of temperature and precipitation gridded output from the GloSea5 SeasonalThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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“…The four interventions were: an area of industrial soy intensification (SOY) and a strict PA, both of which have parallels with land sparing strategies through the focus on intensification for increased yields, and sparing land for nature (Green et al, 2005). The two land sharing, more integrated approaches were a sustainable use reserve (RESEX) and a national forest (FLONA), which are designated multiple use areas, where local peoples are permitted to practice traditional small‐scale, low‐input farming and some forest use (Almeida, 2004; Spínola et al, 2020; Figure 1; Table 1). To avoid biasing results through data collection in ‘outlier’ communities, we selected two representative communities within each intervention type.…”

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“…The two land sharing, more integrated approaches were a sustainable use reserve (RESEX) and a national forest (FLONA), which are designated multiple use areas, where local peoples are permitted to practice traditional small-scale, low-input farming and some forest use (Almeida, 2004;Spínola et al, 2020; Figure 1; Table 1). To avoid biasing results through data collection in 'outlier' communities, we selected two representative communities within each intervention type.…”

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The comparative performance of land sharing, land sparing type interventions on place‐based human well‐being

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1. Environment-facing interventions impact the distribution, use of and access of natural resources and have important implications for all dimensions (material, relational, quality of life) of human well-being (HWB). Yet conventional impact metrics routinely surpass the non-material impacts which may be particularly salient in rural contexts where small-scale farmers depend directly on the land and biodiversity. Furthermore, little is known about the comparative performance of distinct interventions along a land-sharing, versus land sparing gradient, on local definitions of HWB.2. We address this knowledge gap, adopting a perception-based impact evaluation within communities across four intervention types representing the land sparing, sharing gradient: intensified industrial soy production (n = 60 HHs), a protected area (n = 70), an extractive reserve (n = 70) and a national forest (n = 70) in Pará in the Brazilian Amazon. We collected data using the Global Person Generated Index (GPGI) with household heads (n = 270) in eight communities (two per intervention type). Focus group discussions (n = 8) solicited residents' perceptions of impact pathways.3. Our findings highlight the important contribution of relational and subjective dimensions to HWB and call in to question the dominance of material measures in standard impact appraisals.4. Furthermore, we show that single sector and integrated approaches generate 'polarized impact footprints' in which integrated approaches achieve (a) more impact, which is (b) more often positive and (c) locally salient, the inverse is true for single-sector sparing style approaches.5. Areas of well-being that matter locally (culture, health and social relations), but are not impacted by interventions are relational, and point towards the potential of rights-based conservation to empower rural smallholders to remain in their communities while flourishing.

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“…During the 2016-2017 dry seasons, another round of wildfire events degraded over 10,000 km 2 of forests in the Tapaj os region (Withey et al 2018), one of the Amazon centers of species endemism (Silva et al 2005). Fire degraded nearly a quarter of the RESEX and 14% of the FLONA forest cover (N obrega Spínola et al 2020). Most of it referred to social forests around settlements (see Withey et al 2018).…”

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Restoring fire‐degraded social forests via biocultural approaches: a key strategy to safeguard the Amazon legacy

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Wildfires have emerged as an escalating source of tropical forest degradation with a cascade of negative consequences for the sustainable development of tropical regions. This is particularly the case in the Amazon forest region as wildfires have already degraded a considerable extension of both secondary and old‐growth forests, including “social forests” managed by traditional communities into protected areas. Here, we advocate in favor of a neglected perspective recognizing wildfires as an escalating threat of unanticipated but certainly devasting impacts on social forests, communal territories, the social reproduction of local/traditional forest‐based communities, and the network of protected areas devoted to safeguard the Amazon forest legacy, including ecosystem services of global relevance such as climate regulation. In response to this prognosis, we call for a research agenda focused on fire drivers, impacts, management, and mitigation, including the establishment of biocultural restoration initiatives/pilot programs in communal territories. Initiatives should integrate co‐produced goals, approaches, and technology to economically, socially, and politically empower those stakeholders with an effective interest in forest persistence although they are already vulnerable. Finally, we propose a governance model connecting key stakeholders to scale up fire‐related biocultural restoration in the Amazon region with the potential to produce timely and globally relevant knowledge and lessons. We hope our ideas stimulate key stakeholders to promote biocultural initiatives able to guarantee the emergence of sustainable territories and thus safeguard the climate‐buffering Amazon forest and its legacy for the sake of both local and global society.

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A shared perspective on managing Amazonian sustainable‐use reserves in an era of megafires

Cited by 13 publications

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An alert system for Seasonal Fire probability forecast for South American Protected Areas

An alert system for Seasonal Fire probability forecast for South American Protected Areas

The comparative performance of land sharing, land sparing type interventions on place‐based human well‐being

Restoring fire‐degraded social forests via biocultural approaches: a key strategy to safeguard the Amazon legacy

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