Human Management

• Humans moving to areas which experience wildfires
• The area zone between large settlements and where wildfires occur is called the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI)
• The number of people living in the WUI has doubled in the last 40 years
• Natural fires that previously burned regularly in those areas are now stinted to protect human settlements
• Fire management decisions may lead to a build up of vegetation that can turn into fuel
• Slash and burn techniques: over 2500 fires in the Brazilian Amazon every year