Minister of the STF gives 15 days for the Union and States to report investigations and sanctions related to the arson attacks of 2024
The minister of the (Supreme Federal Court) Flávio Dino determined this Wednesday (22 January 2025) that the federal and state governments update information on administrative sanctions and police investigations related to the criminal forest fires of 2024.
Dino gave a deadline of 15 dias to comply with the measure. It applies to the 10 states that make up the Amazon and Pantanal regions. They are: Acre, Amapá, Amazonas, Rondônia, Roraima, To, Maranhão, Tocantins, Mato Grosso e Mato Grosso do Sul. Let’s go (PDF – 134 kB).
Furthermore, the federative units must present, within 30 daysemergency educational action and awareness plans on integrated fire management, in accordance with the new Law, which established the .
Projects must cover publicity and social mobilization actions, “aiming at broad participation of businesspeople and civil society”according to Dino.
The measurement takes place after study dissemination do this Wednesday (Jan 22), which shows the area devastated by fires in Brazil in relation to 2023.
On Tuesday (21 January), the minister March 13th an evaluation of the emergency forest fire prevention plan in 2025, presented by the federal government as determined by the STF.
STUDY ON BURNS
According to data from MapBiomas’ Fire Monitor, 30,867,676 hectares were burned last year – an area larger than the entire territory of Italy. Here’s the of data (PDF – 4 MB).
Of these more than 30 million hectares, 73% were native vegetation, 25% in forest formations. Fires in pasture areas accounted for 21.9% of the 2024 total.
A Amazon it was the biome with the largest number of areas devastated by fire: 17.9 million hectares were set on fire in 2024. It is followed by Cerrado (9.7 million), Pantanal (1.9 million), Atlantic Forest (1 million), Caatinga (330 thousand) and Pampa (3,400).
