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