Conservation & CommunitiesFirst community brigade with AI in the Amazon: how Marajó sem Fumaça combined technology, local knowledge, and clean air health
Pioneering Project Milestones
Global Alliance and Community Empowerment
First umgrauemeio project uniting an international philanthropic fund (Clean Air Fund) and socio-environmental NGO (Instituto Ar) to form, certify, and equip the Guardiões das Chamas community brigade in Curral Panema, powered by the PANTERA platform.
Pioneering Public Health and Air Pollution Focus
An unprecedented approach directly connecting wildfire containment to local population health, preventing fires to reduce soot and black carbon emissions that cause severe respiratory and cardiovascular damage.
Practical Benchmark for National Fire Policy (PNMIF)
Presented at IBAMA headquarters in Brasília alongside IPAM, Prevfogo, and Integra Fogo as a model integrating science, technology, and community knowledge for Brazil’s National Integrated Fire Management Policy (Law 14,944/2024) in territories with no fire stations and river-only access.
The challenge before PANTERA
- In Ponta de Pedras, where travel between communities relies entirely on river routes and there is no local fire department, external response time to wildfires was completely unfeasible
- With worsening droughts and El Niño years, the Amazon forest became less resilient, turning fire into an imminent risk of biodiversity loss and destruction of subsistence crops
- Vegetation fires exposed riverine families, fishermen, and children to high levels of soot and particulate matter, causing severe respiratory damage even after flames were controlled
How PANTERA solved it
- Deployment of the PANTERA System with a 360° AI camera for automatic 24/7 smoke detection up to a 20 km radius, delivering instant mobile alerts to firefighters
- Support for the training and certification of 15 local firefighters from Curral Panema (Guardiões das Chamas Brigade) with 32 hours of technical training and live fire drill refreshers
- Ongoing environmental education delivering 2,000 copies of the booklet "Fire: Friend or Danger?" to municipal schools, integrating ancestral community knowledge and early prevention
Marajó sem Fumaça
Learn more about community actions, brigades, and reports on the official portal.
Analysis: AI shortens the distance of fire in Marajó (Pedro Côrtes)
Read full article↗“The AI camera helps spot smoke earlier, but the alert only works because there is a trained community team ready to act on the ground.”
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