Integral Fire Management

 

Forest fires do not distinguish people, productive areas, forests, houses, or priority areas for conservation. Any carelessness or mishandling can start a fire, and if we consider climate change, producing winds, low rainfall and low temperatures that dehydrate forest fuels and make them available for combustion, forest fires are a potential threat.

 

In addition to natural fires, in the communities inside the Reserve, the use of fire is used as a tool among some people for farming and hunting. This practice has been used for generations without realizing the harm it causes to the protected area.

 

For these reasons, in 1999 the program of fire prevention and firefighting was established. This program has been modified to create the Integral Fire Management (MIF), which significantly has reduced the acreage affected by fires, having now recovered forested tracts.

 

What this program aims is to address the use of fire in the Reserve, creating awareness in communities to act responsibly to a forest that provides them with environmental and subsistence benefits. In addition to trained personnel with knowledge of forest resources and its relationship with fire and also has enough equipment to respond to any eventuality.