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Support Fire Prevention and Response
Efforts in the Bolivian Amazon

You can make a difference in the Amazon this fires season by supporting on-the-ground fire prevention and response activities and fire-free development programs for the future.

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Local governments, communities, and fire brigades in the Beni region of the Bolivian Amazon urgently need your support to effectively fight these fires and preserve protected areas in danger of being permanently destroyed.

In the southern region of the Bolivian Amazon where we work, the vast majority of major fires that we detected last year burned in Amazonian savanna and dry forest ecosystems. Notably, a quarter of these fires burned within protected areas.

Local communities and municipalities are extremely underfunded and cannot fight these fires alone.

In some parts of the Beni region, local fire brigades don’t even have access to water for fighting fires.

 

Your contributions will directly support our on-the-ground fire prevention and response activities, including purchasing much-needed firefighting supplies and safety gear, mobilizing fire brigades to combat fires in remote regions, and supporting fire-free development and education programs to prevent future fires.

(Shown to the right is a volunteer in the Bolivian Amazon holding fire protection equipment, purchased via donations during the 2019 Amazon fires.

Read more about that on-the-ground response here.)

 

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"The supplies and firefighting equipment... that's what is necessary...Trainings have been given in the last 3 years and in all the communities, there are community brigades, there are volunteer brigades, there are volunteer forest firefighters. But what is needed is the equipment and supplies to be able to fight the fires." -Secretary for the Environment and Natural Resources of the Government of Beni, Ana Carola Vaca

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