Alliance between Guajajara people from the Arariboia indigenous land and firefighters from Maranhão state, in Brazil, tries to stop the fire on the most conserved part of the forest within the territory. About 80 Awá-Guajá isolated people live on the site and they are threatened by the fire, the largest ever recorded in indigenous lands in Brazil. About 45% of 413,000 hectares of land have been destroyed. The lack of an effective policy to protect indigenous lands allows illegal logging and increases the risk that fires like this can happen in other lands, since the degradation caused by illegal logging makes the forests vulnerable to fire.