Corpoguajira y el Cuerpo de Bomberos de Riohacha, suscribieron una alianza para promover acciones de prevención de incendios forestales, dirigidas a líderes cívicos, gremios de la producción, public and private institutions and members of communities located in the rural areas of Riohacha, Dibulla, Maicao, India, Hatonuevo, Barrancas, Fonseca, Distracción, San Juan del Cesar, Corpoguajira intensifies actions to prevent forest fires. The work will also strengthen environmental education processes associated with risk management and disaster prevention policy..

The tasks include the formation of 11 forestry brigades that will be in charge of monitoring and giving timely notice to the competent authorities, in case of ignition; in addition, A cycle of training workshops for prevention will be developed, control and management of fires and drills, that will be aimed at communities that live in the areas of influence of the project.

To avoid such environmental accidents, The Corporation urges the community in general to properly dispose of garbage, Do not throw the floor matches, butts, cigarettes or burning objects; papers, cans, Plastics, glass or any type of waste or materials capable of causing a fire. Under no circumstances should a fire in the field.

La Guajira, is a department conducive to forest fires, because the low humidity, the low presence of cloudiness and high temperatures, They constitute factors that influence the occurrence, mainly in the mountain systems of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and the Serranía del Perijá.