Until early April, “significant increases” in fires have been recorded compared to last year. Nicaragua is the country with the most burned hectares, followed by Guatemala and Honduras.
In the last 48 hours more than 140 active fires had been identified through the MODIS satellite sensor. “They are areas on the ground that are clearly hotter than their surroundings and are marked as active fires,” the agency warned in a statement. The fire information was collected through Copernicus, a European Union program for Earth observation and monitoring, and the Global Forest Fire Information System (GWIS). in English). According to these data, in Nicaragua there have been more than 10,000 active fires so far this year. The GWIS details that, in the period analyzed, 211,432 hectares were burned in Guatemala. In Honduras, 267,285; in Costa Rica 84,265; in Panama 83,801; in Belize 29,715; and in El Salvador, 17,603.