📋 Tender Overview
Fires are currently being recorded in the Awajun district, in the native communities of Shampuyacu and Alto Mayo, within the Alto Mayo Protection Forest. A contingent of forest firefighter rangers from 5 protected natural areas in southern Peru arrived in the city of Rioja to reinforce the actions that are being deployed to mitigate the forest fires currently registered in the district of Awajun, in the native communities of Shampuyacu and Alto Mayo, area of the Alto Mayo Protection Forest (BPAM), this in coordination with the District Municipality of Awajun and Feriaam.
The brigade of 26 forest firefighters from the National Service of Natural Protected Areas by the State (Sernanp), attached to the Ministry of the Environment, is made up of park rangers from the Abiseo River National Park (San Martin), the Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu (Cusco), Manu National Park, Titicaca National Reserve and Cordillera Azul National Park (San Martin, Loreto, Ucayali and Huanuco), who join forces with the forest firefighter personnel of the Alto Mayo Protection Forest.
Currently, emergency control tasks have been carried out by the brigade of forest firefighter rangers from BPAM, PNCAZ and the Rio Abiseo National Park, who have deployed actions consecutively during the last 10 days in areas of difficult access, extinguishing 22 fire outbreaks. It should be noted that during the last 2 weeks, 22 forest fire alerts have been registered within the BPAM, of which 17 occurred within this protected natural area and 5 in its buffer zone or nearby sectors.
The sectors that have been affected by these emergencies within the BPAM are Camino al Milagro - Alto San Juan, Las Flores parte alta - Alto Valle, Paraiso del Alto Mayo, Estrellita, El Mirador, Pena Blanca and Agua Negra, while in its buffer zone forest fires have been registered in the Copal and Camino al Milagro - Alto San Juan sectors.
In addition to these fire mitigation actions, efforts have also been made to protect and rescue wildlife species affected by these emergencies. Thus, during the liquidation of one of the fires recorded within this protected area, BPAM park rangers managed to rescue a mountain snake.
