{"id":2143,"date":"2013-04-24T15:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pasopacifico.org\/2013\/04\/fire-in-masaya\/"},"modified":"2024-07-17T16:00:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T22:00:38","slug":"fire-in-masaya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/fire-in-masaya\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire in Masaya"},"content":{"rendered":"
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photo of the crater at Masaya
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We’re watching the fire burn through the tropical dry forests near Volcano Masaya, where we work closely with park rangers to help visitors understand and appreciate Masaya’s unique ecology.\u00a0The fire in Masaya has burned through 1200 acres of woodlands and is still flaming, threatening the very ecosystems we’re working to protect.<\/p>\n

Forest regeneration and restoration will take decades. What has taken 10 days to burn, will likely take 70-80 years to recover. As Carlos\u00a0Mej\u00eda, MARENA’s director of Biodiversity, has pointed out (in El Nuevo Diario piece below), before this fire started the forests of Masaya were still recovering from the last volcanic event.<\/p>\n

Kamilo Lara, an environmental specialist and director of the National Forum on Recycling, pointed out that the tropical dry forests of Masaya are unique along Central America’s Pacific slope, and the unique ecosystems it contained will be very difficult to restore.<\/p>\n

Fire is a part of life in Nicaragua, and has been used for generations as a means of preparing agricultural land. The effects of fire on forest ecosystems varies from year to year, dependent on climatological cycles.\u00a0This year, fires in Nicaragua have consumed more than 20,000 acres of protected forests.\u00a0We are looking forward to the rainy season setting in next month to give forests and wildlife a chance to recover from this year’s flames.<\/div>\n

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From El Nuevo Diario<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Restauraci\u00f3n de bosque en Volc\u00e1n Masaya tardar\u00e1 d\u00e9cadas<\/b>
\nFuego acab\u00f3 en tan solo diez d\u00edas con un bosque tropical seco \u00fanico en la regi\u00f3n del Pac\u00edfico, que conten\u00eda importantes ecosistemas muy dif\u00edciles de restaurar\u00a0<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Se necesitar\u00e1n al menos siete u ocho d\u00e9cadas para que comience su recuperaci\u00f3n y m\u00e1s de un siglo para que se pueda restablecer todo lo que fue destruido por el reciente incendio ocurrido en el Parque Nacional Volc\u00e1n Masaya, as\u00ed lo expresaron hoy los especialistas…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Carlos Mej\u00eda, director de Biodiversidad del Ministerio del Ambiente y los Recursos Naturales, Marena, destac\u00f3 que la zonas afectadas, tanto en el Parque Nacional, como en otras \u00e1reas del pa\u00eds, nunca se logran reponer en su totalidad y debe pasar por todo un proceso evolutivo muy lento.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cEn tan s\u00f3lo diez d\u00edas se acab\u00f3 con un bosque tropical seco \u00fanico en la regi\u00f3n del Pac\u00edfico, que conten\u00eda importantes ecosistemas muy dif\u00edciles de restaurar\u201d, dijo ambientalista Kamilo Lara, director del Foro Nacional del Reciclaje, Fonare.<\/p>\n

El fuego es parte de la vida en Nicaragua, y ha sido utilizado por generaciones como un medio de preparar la tierra agr\u00edcola. Los efectos del fuego en los ecosistemas del bosques var\u00eda de un a\u00f1o a otro, en funci\u00f3n de los ciclos climatol\u00f3gicos. Este a\u00f1o, los incendios en Nicaragua han consumido m\u00e1s de 20.000 hect\u00e1reas de bosques protegidos. Estamos esperando a la estaci\u00f3n de las lluvias en los pr\u00f3ximos meses para dar a los bosques y la vida silvestre la oportunidad de recuperarse de las llamas de este a\u00f1o.<\/p>\n

Donate today to support Paso Pac\u00edfico’s reforestation efforts and help train rangers to better protect people and wildlife from fires.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

photo of the crater at Masaya (this is NOT smoke from the current fire) We’re watching the fire burn through the tropical dry forests near Volcano Masaya, where we work closely with park rangers to help visitors understand and appreciate Masaya’s unique ecology.\u00a0The fire in Masaya has burned through 1200 acres of woodlands and is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[211],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environmental-conservation","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6645,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions\/6645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}