South American Agricultural Aviation’s role in protecting people, land, and crops from fire is the focus of a new firefighting campaign launched this week by Sindag, the association representing the agricultural aviation sector in South America.
The campaign is being promoted on social media to raise public awareness of agricultural aviation’s vital role since the 1960s, both in crop protection and in safeguarding natural reserves.
Since at least 1990, agricultural aviation has been actively involved in firefighting efforts to protect Brazil’s major biomes. These efforts include annual operations in the Amazon, Cerrado, Pantanal, and even the Atlantic Forest, Pampa, and Caatinga. During the current fire season, which began in July and is expected to continue through early October, at least 36 agricultural aviation companies participate in aerial firefighting operations. Preliminary estimates suggest more than 15 million liters of water have already been dropped this year.
