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Instituto Aritana

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Sixteen Peoples, One Fire Plan for the Xingu

Forests

🇧🇷 Brazil

Instituto Aritana unites 16 Indigenous peoples of Brazil's Xingu Indigenous Territory around community-built fire management plans that pair ancestral burning knowledge with modern brigades to keep megafires out of the forest.

15plansCommunity Fire Management Plans developed with Xingu peoples
16peoplesIndigenous peoples represented across the Xingu Indigenous Territory
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