Fires, Forests and People Working Group Updates
Dear FLARE community and FFP members, we have been working behind the scenes to identify our next steps in terms of building the visibility of our community of practice and are moving forward with the idea discussed between a number of us in person at the 2025 FLARE Annual Meeting in Lima. The idea was to create a web-page that will highlight FFP members, their forests in focus, and their expertize. Please take a moment to complete the form circulated to send your information in to us so that we can progress on this action. It’s also great to be able to share that we are planning an FFP meeting for April 21st, 16.00-17.00 (London time) and hope that you can join us. We will be looking to host a Global FFP Conversation seminar later in the year. If you’d like to connect with others in the group to convene and co-host sessions, then please get in touch. Last but not least, I’d like you all to join me in welcoming Elliot Fisher, who will be co-chairing FFP over the next year. Welcome Elliot, thank you so much for coming on board!
– Rachel Carmenta, FFP Working Group Lead
FFP will be organizing a workshop for the Bilbao FLARE 2026 conference.
– Please contact either Rachel Carmenta or Elliot Fisher if you have ideas or would like to be involved.
- Intercultural Integrated Fire Management: a rapid assessment appraisal
- 🔥Members of the Global FIRE-ADAPT network on The role of Integrated Fire Management on climate change adaptation for ecosystem services in tropical and subtropical regions were seconded at the Pau Costa Foundation (Catalunya, Spain) in late February.
- ✅The secondment focused on advancing the Rapid Assessment Appraisal of Intercultural IFM. The focus is on assessing progress, opportunities and barriers to embedding interculturality into IFM across different regions, biomes and contexts.
- ✅ The Rapid Assessment is an output of the (Inter)cultural services and human well-being work stream of FIRE-ADAPT (led by Rachel Carmenta and Bibiana Bilbao) and will be available towards the end of the year. The RA is intended to be a useful resource for policy, practice and academics, showcasing the approaches towards interculturality in IFM taken across the 10 FIRE-ADAPT countries and help steer future efforts.
- The event was supported by the EU and UKRI, and was co-organized by UEA (Rachel Carmenta) and Bibiana Bilbao (Cobra collective) and hosted by Pau Cost Foundation (PCF).
- Cultura, Uso y Manejo del Fuego
- #EnAcción | La ciudad de Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, fue sede del primer Encuentro Panamazónico sobre Cultura, Uso y Manejo del Fuego (3–5 de marzo). El evento reunió a cerca de 60 participantes de Bolivia, Brasil, Perú, Colombia y Ecuador, entre ellos liderazgos de Pueblos Indígenas y comunidades tradicionales, así como representantes de gobiernos, organizaciones de la sociedad civil e institutos de investigación.
- 🔥El encuentro promovió el diálogo intercultural e intersectorial sobre el manejo del fuego en la Panamazonía, reconociendo sus dimensiones culturales, productivas y ecológicas y fortaleciendo la cooperación regional en torno al Manejo Integrado del Fuego (MIF).
- ✅A través de paneles y grupos de trabajo se compartieron experiencias territoriales, prácticas comunitarias de uso del fuego, estrategias de prevención y respuesta ante incendios, así como resultados de investigación en distintos contextos amazónicos. Las discusiones destacaron la importancia de integrar conocimientos científicos, locales e indígenas y de fortalecer la coordinación interinstitucional.
- El evento fue coorganizado por CIFOR-ICRAF y la Red Bioamazonia, con el apoyo del Global Fire Management Hub de la FAO.
FFP Meetings
FFP Member Showcasing – Save the Date!
Forests, Fires and Peoples WG will meet on 26th May, at 3:00 pm GMT (10:00 pm WIB; 10:00 am ET; 9:00 am CT)
Join us to share your work, updates, new papers, new initiatives as we continue building our community of practice and learn more about who we are across our membership, sharing general updates on our projects, papers. As well as a roundtable of member showcasing, we will dedicate some time to planning future FFP events – with a focus on our Firelight Insights seminar series, and brainstorming for our FFP workshop at FLARE 2026.
FFP member visibility – complete this form to add your profile to our FFP webpages!
Take a moment to add your key information to the FFP website – all you have to do is take 5-7 minutes to complete this form and you’ll appear in our FFP dedicated webspace thanks to the support of the FLARE secretariat!
FLARE Working Group: Fires, Forests, People
Recent Publications
Convery‐Fisher, E. D., Devenish, A., Staddon, S., Rafanomezantsoa, F. L., & Lehmann, C. E. (2026). Understanding fire conflict through stakeholder mapping in Madagascar’s grassy biomes. People and Nature, 8(1), 110-126.
de Moraes Falleiro, R., Viana Rodovalho, F., Constantino Zacharias, G., Camargo Oliveira, G., Schmidt, I. B., Steil, L., & Carmenta, R. (2025). Wildfire protection in indigenous lands of Brazil: the role of fire brigades programs. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.
Escobar-Alvarado, L. F., Fontana, L. B., Fisher, J. A., Kaula, E., António, T. E., & Dexter, K. G. (2025). Fires of war: how civil war shaped fire regimes in East Angola. Ecology & Society, 30(4), 1-44. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-16658-300444
Luna-Celino, V., Kainer, K. A., Carmenta, R., Loiselle, B., & Cuellar, A. (2025). Burning perceptions that integrate wellbeing and ecosystem services to inform fire governance in the Peruvian Andes. Journal of Rural Studies, 116, 103610.
Oliveras Menor, I., Prat-Guitart, N., Spadoni, G. L., Hsu, A., Fernandes, P. M., Puig-Gironès, R., … & Armenteras Pascual, D. (2025). Integrated fire management as an adaptation and mitigation strategy to altered fire regimes. Communications Earth & Environment, 6(1), 202.
Puig-Gironès, R., Palmero-Iniesta, M., Fernandes, P. M., Oliveras Menor, I., Ascoli, D., Kelly, L. T., … & Pons, P. (2025). The use of fire to preserve biodiversity under novel fire regimes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 380(1924)