The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat), through the National Forestry Commission (Conafor), reported in its weekly report – corresponding from April 25 to May 1 – that 147 forest fires were recorded throughout the country, affecting a total of 17 thousand 806.18 hectares.
In the case of Nayarit, during that period there were five accidents that consumed 451 hectares. With these figures, the state accumulates 59 fires so far this year, which have devastated 13 thousand 240.62 hectares of vegetation. This amount places Nayarit in the ninth place nationally per affected surface, three positions below the sixth place it occupied until April 24.
The most affected states so far this year are Jalisco, with 43 thousand 393.72 sinister hectares; followed by Chihuahua (37 thousand 662.07), Baja California (30 thousand 096.23), Durango (22 thousand 486.5), Sinaloa (19 thousand 364.44), Oaxaca (14 thousand 512.51), Chiapas (14 thousand 134.38) and Guerrero (13 thousand 681.27).
Three,57 brigadistas have participated in the combat tasks, of which one in five is voluntary. The rest belongs to various units of the three levels of government.
At the informative cut of the 12:34 p.m. on May 2, Nayarit faced two active forest fires, both inside the feeder basin of the National Irrigation District 043, a protected natural area. The most extensive is located in Jalpa Grande, municipality of Jala, and has so far devastated 1,400 hectares, an extension comparable with that of the fire occurred on the Cerro de San Juan last month. This new incident is already positioned as the second largest of the year in the state.
The second active fire is located on Cerro Colorado, municipality of La Yesca, also within the same protected area.
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