ACTO’s Permanent Secretariat recognizes and values the efforts and different actions that Member Countries are carrying out for the mobilization, attention and articulation, according to their capabilities, to combat, control and mitigate forest fires that occur in their respective Amazonian territories.
Within the framework of forest management, restoration and reforestation, among other policies, ACTO has been implementing different actions and fundraising for new projects and programs destined to develop and strengthen: the monitoring of the degradation and forest recovery; the development of early warning systems of deforestation; establishment of information channels that support decision making on measures to mitigate deforestation and forest degradation and the promotion of the leveling of the countries capacities to address the existing challenges in face of climate change. As well as planning for forest fire risk management; the zoning or mapping risk areas and vulnerability analysis of forest fires; the use of technologies for the application of early alerts; identification of the origin, frequency and extension of forest fires of the affected areas; and the strengthening of the information management at the national and regional levels as a basis for planning the prevention, control and combat of forest fires.
The work in favor of the Amazon Region, it must be emphasized, is carried out by the 8 Amazon Countries within the framework of their sovereignty and national and regional actions. ACTO’s Permanent Secretariat is committed to multiplying these efforts in order to achieving greater and better effects towards the harmonious development and the preservation of the environment of the Amazon Region.
August 2019
