Participatory mapping reveals socioeconomic drivers of forest fires in protected areas of the post‐conflict Colombian Amazon

Abstract

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Fires in the Amazon Region: Quick Policy Review

“…Historically, the areas that suffered the greatest environmental impact during over five decades of armed conflict in Colombia are located in regions with the highest concentration of PNAs, and are therefore of particular interest for the conservation of the country's fauna and flora. While deforestation in and around Colombian PNAs was also affected by extensive illicit crop production (Andrade, 2004; Negret et al, 2019; Tebbutt et al, 2021), it increased further after a peace agreement between the largest guerrilla group, FARC‐EP, and the Colombian government was signed on November 12, 2016 (Clerici et al, 2020). A number of regulations that make no clear rulings on the matter form the key legislative framework on PNAs and fire management.…”

“…In In the post-conflict socio-economic and political context of Colombia, fires affecting its Amazonian departments are associated with the advance of agricultural and livestock activities, tenure inequality, the weakness of property rights, poor fire-management practices, and the increasing (and unregulated) use of fire in slash-andburn practices (Armenteras et al, 2019;Tebbutt et al, 2021). Historically, the areas that suffered the greatest environmental impact during over five decades of armed conflict in Colombia are located in regions with the highest concentration of PNAs, and are therefore of particular interest for the conservation of the country's fauna and flora.…”

Amazonian visions of Visión Amazonía: Indigenous Peoples' perspectives on a forest conservation and climate programme in the Colombian Amazon

“…From the perspective of the People of the Centre, much of the problem lies in suboptimal deployment of the resources of Visión Amazonía and deficient measures to target underlying deforestation drivers on the forest frontier (cf. Rodríguez-de-Francisco et al, 2021; Tebbutt et al, 2021). Crucially, they attribute the ineffectiveness of Visión Amazonía to its failure to recognize and empower Indigenous territorial governance and autonomy properly, claiming that the logic of this programme is at odds with Indigenous forms of environmental governance, sustainable forest use and management that are embedded in the day-to-day activities and beliefs of Indigenous Peoples.…”

Susceptibilidad para incendios de cubierta vegetal

“…Generalmente, los agricultores consideran al fuego como una herramienta para la eliminación de residuos agrícolas (Vélez Muñoz, 2000). Sin embargo, en países como Colombia, Ecuador y Perú, los cultivos ilícitos tienen una gran incidencia en la propagación de este tipo incendios (Tebbutt et al, 2021). Por ese motivo, se delimitaron los espacios agrícolas a partir de la información del CUS.…”

“…Entre los factores ambientales destacan los topográficos como la pendiente o la altitud y los meteorológicos como la temperatura o la precipitación (Abedi Gheshlaghi, 2019;Eugenio et al, 2016). En cambio, los factores antrópicos son producto de las costumbres o de la cercanía a actividades humanas (Tebbutt et al, 2021;Vélez Muñoz, 2000). En Sudamérica, gracias a estudios realizados en países como Colombia, Brasil y Ecuador, se ha identificado que los factores con un papel crucial en la generación de incendios son de tipo meteorológico como la temperatura, la precipitación y la humedad.…”