Environmental agents intensify strike amid record fires in Brazil

On a partial strike since January, environmental agents have intensified their protest in Brazil, significantly impacting on-the-ground activities.

Since January, federal employees from the federal environmental agency, IBAMA, the agency for the conservation units, ICMBio, the Brazilian Forestry Service and the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change have reduced their activities on the ground and focused on bureaucratic work. This year, the dry season came earlier in the Pantanal, the world’s largest floodplain, where 3,372 fires were registered from January to June 25, a 2,000% bump from last year’s 150 fires, according to. If nothing changes, this fire season in the Pantanal may be even more devastating than the one from 2020, when 30% of the biome’s area burned

“When you have the environmental agency paralyzed by just demands and allied it to climate change and the rebound of the super El Niño, the situation worries us a lot,” Rômulo Batista, a spokesperson from Greenpeace Brasil, told Mongabay. The agents are protesting for better salaries and work conditions, including hiring new staff. According to ASCEMA, there are only 700 inspectors to cover the country’s six biomes, and the environmental specialist category workforce should be doubled.

According to ASCEMA, raids that require a large number of agents for a long period, like the ones in Munduruku and Yanomami Indigenous Territories, are suspended during the strike. Image courtesy of Vinícius Mendonça/Ibama.

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