Fires in protected areas reveal unforeseen costs of colombian peace

ABSTRACT Armed conflict, and its end, can have powerful effects on natural resources, but the influence of war and peace on highly biodiverse tropical forests remains disputed. We found a

sixfold increase in fires in protected areas across biodiversity hotspots following guerrilla demobilization in Colombia, and a 52% increase in the probability of per-pixel deforestation

within parks for 2018. Peace requires urgent shifts to include real-time forest monitoring, expand programmes to pay for ecosystem services at the frontier, integrate demobilized armed

groups as staff of protected areas, and establish a domestic market for frontier deforestation permits. Access through your institution Buy or subscribe This is a preview of subscription

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS D.A. is supported by NAS Subaward Letter number 2000007526. L.S. is a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Biodiversity and Sustainable Development. L.M.D. is supported in part

by NSF-DGE 1633299. We acknowledge the use of data and imagery from LANCE FIRMS, operated by the NASA/GSFC/Earth Science Data and Information System, with funding provided by NASA/HQ. We

also acknowledge the use of imagery from the Image Collections LANDSAT/LC08/C01/T1_SR and COPERNICUS/S2, accessible through Google Earth Engine. Finally, we thank S. Barreto for his

technical assistance with Google Earth Engine and J. Balch for her comments on an earlier version of the manuscript. AUTHOR INFORMATION AUTHORS AND AFFILIATIONS * Grupo de Ecología del

Paisaje y Modelación de Ecosistemas, Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia Dolors Armenteras * Department of Geography, Rutgers

University, Piscataway, NJ, USA Laura Schneider * Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA Liliana María Dávalos * Consortium for Inter-Disciplinary

Environmental Research, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA Liliana María Dávalos Authors * Dolors Armenteras View author publications You

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