FRIENDS! AMIGOS!As you may have seen on the news and in social media, we are experiencing large fires in national parks and indigenous territories, fires that are having enormous impacts on indigenous communities and biodiversity. While already out of the news, the fires continue to spread and our women and men firefighters need our support.Five environmental organizations have joined together to raise funds for supporting the firefighting efforts and we are each taking on the challenge of raising $20,000 for humanitarian aid or rescuers and communities affected by forest fires in Chiquitanía. Donations will be used for the following short term and long term needs:1) Firefighter equipment (boots, hydrant ladde, masks, fire axe)2) Park ranger team support to protect the areas from settlers3) Drones to monitor de fires from the ground4) Improvements to fire fighting stations5) Vehicles tires, gasoline,water tanks, foodFor more information on the situation and the plan to address current and future fires, we have created an on-line slideshow that explains the problems and describes the urgent solutions needed to reduce and eliminate the current fires and to limit and better manage future fires.See the slideshow here: Incendios Bolivia 2019 Donations will go to the following local institutions, Fundación Natura and Savia who are working directly with the firefighter groups in different areas and supporting directly the national parks teams.