UBC experts on Amazon rainforest fires

A record number of fires are burning in the Amazon rainforest. UBC experts are available to comment:

Peter Arcese
Professor, Faculty of Forestry
Email: peter.arcese@ubc.ca

• Impact of Indigenous land management on protecting biodiversity

Michael Brauer
Professor, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability and School of Population and Public Health
Tel: 604-822-9585 (e-mail first)
Email: michael.brauer@ubc.ca

• Air pollution from the fires and its health effects

Kai Chan
Professor, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability
Tel. 604-288-9820 (Wednesday), or 778-839-9820 (Thursday)
Email: kaichan@ires.ubc.ca

• Larger implications in terms of reducing precipitation and potentially switching the forests to savannahs
• Implications for global climate change and ecosystem services

Benjamin Freeman
Postdoctoral fellow, Biodiversity Research Centre
Tel: 778-680-5483
Email: freeman@zoology.ubc.ca

• Field experiences in the Amazon, including the wildfire areas

Karen Hodges
Professor, UBC Okanagan Department of Biology
Tel: 250-807-8763
Email: karen.hodges@ubc.ca

• Wildfires in North American conifer forests
• Wildlife responses after wildfires
• Habitat loss and species endangerment

Nuno Porto
Curator, Africa and South America, Museum of Anthropology at UBC
Tel: 604-827-3863
Email: nuno.porto@ubc.ca (preferred)

• Social and political causes of the wildfires

Richard Schuster
PhD graduate, Faculty of Forestry
Email: richard.schuster@glel.carleton.ca

• Impact of Indigenous land management on protecting biodiversity