Ibadan, 31 July 2024. – Permian Global and OroraTech have announced a partnership dedicated to protecting two large tropical reserves in Indonesia and Brazil, ensuring detection and wildfire management services for over 296,200 hectares (731,900 acres) of conservation area.
OroraTech’s network of wildfire detection satellites will consequently monitor the Katingan Mentaya Project in Indonesia, the world’s largest forest-based emissions project area, and the Rio Cautário Conservation Project in Brazil, in case of an outbreak. This technology will also be available in 46 villages to augment their firefighting capabilities.
Permian Global partners with agencies to employ the local population living around the projects to combat deforestation and protect these local ecosystems from wildfires and other external threats. It will consequently deploy approximately 3,200 full-time and seasonal firefighters in these projects using OroraTech’s Wildfire Solution to give them the most advanced wildfire management tool on the planet.
Both conservation areas represent a vastly important part of their natural biodiversity. In the Katingan Mentaya Project, the tropical peat swamp forest is home to around 5–10% of the world’s remaining Bornean orangutans, a species classified as critically endangered due to deforestation. Meanwhile, the Rio Cautário Project represents one of the largest remaining forest blocks of the Brazilian Amazon in the state of Rondônia, an area under constant threat.
OroraTech secures these lands using a wildfire detection network of 25 satellites in orbit, scanning the planet for thermal anomalies anywhere on Earth. This data feeds into their Wildfire Solution, a platform that displays each fire’s location, size, and spread potential. This affords firefighters and land managers a constant stream of new information about the fires they face.
