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Voluntary Brigades Work 24 
Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade Biodiversidade Brasileira, 10(1): 24, 2020 
 
 
Voluntary Brigades Work On Integrated Fire Management 
 in Conservation Units 
 
 
Anderson de Freitas e Silva¹ 
 
 
 
 
1 Brigada 1 –  Minas Gerais, Brasil 
E-mails to contact: defreitas.anderson@gmail.com, projetos@brigada1.org.br 
 
 
 
 
 
ABSTRACT – In a current reality where environmental conservation has been related to 
the well-being of society as a whole and understood as an individual responsibility, 
voluntary work in wildfire prevention and control in protected areas is becoming more 
and more important. However, volunteers are not only active in prevention, control, 
development of new technologies, and data collection, but also disseminate a culture of 
protection and respect for nature which extrapolates the professional domain. Volunteer 
brigades involved in performing prescribed burns have significant knowledge of fire 
behavior and encourage civil society involvement, especially in the integrated fire 
management (IFM). The expertise of volunteers in preventing and fighting wildfires, 
coordinating teams that know the region where they operate, acting in different 
governance, climate realities, topographies and vegetation types can be useful tools to 
reduce the areas affected by high-severity fires through the IFM. Through trained 
volunteers, integrated fire management practices aim to minimize the costs of combat 
operations, stimulate research development, promote dialogue between scientific 
knowledge and empirical experiences, and improve the relationship between protected 
area managers and local communities. The prescribed burns have the potential to increase 
volunteer activity when compared to wildfires, as it is possible to schedule these planned 
actions. In addition, these activities promote high safety gains as prescribed burns tend to 
behave less intensely and more predictably than wildfires. The empowerment of civil 
society in implementing actions to conserve biodiversity in our protected areas increases 
the qualification of volunteer teams and reduces the vulnerability and discontinuity of 
activities, a situation to which government agencies are often subjected to customary 
budget cuts and, consequently, personnel, not always with good technical support for 
these tasks. 
Keywords:  Integrated fire management, civil society, voluntary brigade. 


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