2020 Pantanal’s widespread fire: short- and long-term implications for biodiversity and conservation
2021
Mataveli, Guilherme A. V. | Pereira, Gabriel | de Oliveira, Gabriel | Seixas, Hugo T. | Cardozo, Francielle da S. | Shimabukuro, Yosio E. | Kawakubo, Fernando S. | Brunsell, Nathaniel A.
The Pantanal faced an unprecedented drought event in 2020. The hydrological year ended in July, 2020 had an annual average rainfall 26 % lower than the average from 1982 to 2020. Consequently, catastrophic wildfires burned out of control. Active fires during this year have also increased, and were 123 % higher than the 2002–2020 Pantanal’s average. Approximately 95 % of these active fires occurred in natural land covers with 28 % of them occurring in areas classified as wetlands that likely dried out due to the drought. Therefore, the development of a special policy is needed to minimize the impact of this crisis on the biodiversity, conservation, and traditional people of the Pantanal.
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