Recuperation from Roraima Fires will take 70 Years
Folha de S. Paulo
September 11, 2000
According to researcher Philip Martin Fearnside, of INPA (the National Research Institute of the Amazon), the devastating forest fires in Roraima during 1997 and 1998 will take between 70 and 120 years to recuperate. Furthermore, the widespread fires left the forest highly susceptible to further fires. IBAMA and the Ministry of the Environment are joining forces to initiate an aerial operation in which satellite data will be used to guide fire-fighting helicopters to hot spots in the Arc of Deforestation.