The resolution 188, proposed by Livre and approved on October 28, recommends that the government “enhance the role of forest management workers in the public sector by renegotiating pay conditions, ensuring salary increases, recognizing the profession as physically demanding, and providing hazard allowances.”
The government is also urged to authorize ICNF to “initiate, by 2026, a tender process for the indefinite hiring of forest management workers, following an assessment of needs,” and to evaluate “recommendations from the forest management workers program review, aiming to improve the training plan for these teams and the respective program.”
Resolution 186, from the Livre parliamentary group, recommends ICNF be authorized to “open, still in 2025, a tender process for the indefinite hiring of nature rangers, after a careful and realistic assessment of needs based on the Institute’s intervention area.”
Another proposal from Livre, resolution 187, approved on October 17, advises the implementation and application of the National Qualification Plan for the Integrated Rural Fire Management System [SGIFR], drafted by the Integrated Rural Fire Management Agency, ensuring the necessary means for its execution.
Parliament also aims for the government to “qualify and empower” SGIFR agents, investing “in continuous education and training of operators and specialized personnel, incorporating technical knowledge to support strategic and operational decision-making, promoting applied scientific research, and strengthening information and communication systems.”
Resolution 184, from Livre, advocates for the government “to adopt and fund emergency stabilization measures for at-risk soils post-fires,” with the definition and provision of “exceptional funding allocated to emergency soil stabilization and ecological restoration actions.”
The executive must immediately open calls for the establishment of “Resilient Territories” program contracts, enabling prompt action in burnt areas, ensuring the rapid deployment of resources and coordination between public and private entities to protect public interest and preserve natural heritage.
Lawmakers recommend fostering cross-border cooperation, as advised by the Independent Technical Observatory, formed in 2018, for analysis, monitoring, and evaluation of wildland and rural fires, ensuring the proper financial and human resources for necessary interventions, thereby reinforcing the resilience of border and cross-border territories.
The government should also ensure “systematic monitoring of burnt areas for a period of no less than two years and the efficacy of different post-fire interventions” for “vegetation regeneration evaluation and soil property analysis.”
Resolution 185, proposed by Inês Sousa Real (PAN), approved on October 17, advises “the use of artificial intelligence for the prevention and detection of wildfires and the reduction of the National Forest Inventory update period within the execution of the Plan ‘Forest 2050, Greener Future.'”
In executing the Forest Intervention Plan from 2025 to 2050, approved by Parliament and proposed by the government, and already published in the Official Gazette, lawmakers recommend “strengthening the necessary means and resources for the use of artificial intelligence in wildfire prevention and detection.”
The text also suggests the executive “consider reducing the National Forest Inventory update period and the possibility of intermediate partial updates.”
