Ecuador declares 60-day state of emergency to help battle wildfires

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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/18/ecuador-declares-60-day-state…

Ecuador has declared a 60-day state of emergency as the South American country has been hit by a severe drought and record wildfires that have razed large swaths of territory over the past weeks.

The Ecuadorian Secretariat for Risk Management (SNGR), the country’s emergency management agency, said in a statement on Monday that the state of emergency was declared “due to forest fires, water deficit and drought”.

I personally think that, forest fires, water deficit, and drought, are highly interrelated with each other. This actually calls for a more interdisciplinary and cross-ministry perspective to approach drought related disaster risk reduction.