The Legal Amazon, which covers more than 5 million km², brings together three biomes (the Amazon, Cerrado and Pantanal) and faces serious challenges such as deforestation and fires, which are aggravated by climate change. In the Amazon rainforest, fire is the result of human actions and is becoming more recurrent with degradation and rising temperatures, affecting the environment, health and the economy. In the Cerrado, fire is natural and essential for regeneration, but its uncontrolled use causes degradation. In the Pantanal, intensified human burning and severe droughts have caused great damage.
To deal with these differences, Brazil instituted Integrated Fire Management (IFM) as an official management model in 2024, through Law No. 14,944. IFM seeks to balance the use of fire, combining ecological, cultural and technical knowledge, with a focus on prevention and the recovery of degraded areas. In this context, the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM) carried out a diagnosis of fire management in the Amazon states, with the support of Prevfogo, to map capacities and challenges and improve governance on the issue.
Read the diagnosis for each state in the Legal Amazon: