Borges, Marco Assis

Costa, Máximo Menezes

Ramos Rodríguez, Marcos Pedro

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Integrated Fire Management For Preventing Mega-Fires 94 
Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade Biodiversidade Brasileira, 10(1): 94, 2020 
 
 
Integrated Fire Management For Preventing Mega-Fires Occurrences 
In Estação Ecológica Serra Geral Do Tocantins, Jalapão, Brazil 
 
 
 
Ana Carolina Sena Barradas¹, Marco Assis Borges¹ e Máximo Menezes Costa¹. 
 
 
 
¹ Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio). 
E-mails: carolina.barradas@icmbio.gov.br, marco.borges@icmbio.gov.br, 
maximo.menezes@icmbio.gov.br 
 
 
 
 
 
 
ABSTRACT – This research describes the evolution of fire management at Serra Geral 
do Tocantins Ecological Station (SGTEE) and how it influences mega fires occurrences 
in this protected area. The method of work involved bibliographic review, documentary 
analysis and personal experience, since all authors work at EESGT. Two fire management 
approaches were identified in the protected area: one focused on fire exclusion (2001 to 
2012) and the other on fire management (2014 - current). We noticed that the period of 
fire exclusion led to fuel accumulation and continuity favoring large wildfires 
occurrences. Mega fires events were registered in 2010, 2012 and 2014 burning, 
respectively, 80.000, 107.000 and 88.000 hectares. The SGTEE faced the challenge of 
formally changing management paradigms by assuming that adaptive and integrated fire 
management can ensure the effective protection of its socio-biodiversity. Since 2015, 
when fire use has been expanded through prescribed burns and participatory management 
agreements with traditional communities, no mega fires have been recorded at PA (the 
largest event recorded in 2018 was only 3.000 hectares). The current experience of fire 
management in the SGTEE reveals that it is possible to revert scenarios of recurrence of 
mega fires at the late dry season, common in the Cerrado, and transform socio-
environmental conflicts into opportunities for knowledge integration and participatory 
management. It also inspire the revision of traditional paradigms in the conservation of 
Brazilian biodiversity in savannas protected areas. 
 
Keywords: mega-fires; integrated fire management; protected areas; Cerrado; fire 
management; wildfire prevention. 
 


Integrated Fire Management For Preventing Mega-Fires Occurrences In Estação Ecológica Serra Geral Do Tocantins, Jalapão, Brazil

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Integrated Fire Management For Preventing Mega-Fires Occurrences In Estação Ecológica Serra Geral Do Tocantins, Jalapão, Brazil

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