GLOBAL WILDLAND FIRE NETWORK ACTIVITIES 2020

Planned activities of the Global Wildland Fire Network in 2020

Note: The implemented activities will be published on this website by end of 2020. This is an overview of some key activities of GFMC in 2020:

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Network Coordination

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A Region of the Global Wildland Fire Network

Mr. Sundar Sharma
Chief, Landslide Management Section
Chief, GIS and Mapping Section (also, Disaster Focal Person, Fire Focal Person)
Department of Forests and Soil Conservation (DoFSC),
Ministry of Forests and Environment (MoFE)
Government of Nepal (http://www.dof.gov.np/)
Babarmahl, Kathmandu, Nepal
G.P.O. Box 4719
Tel:  +977-1- 4220828/4220857(O)       
+977-1-5554434 (R)       
+977-9841311069/ 
(Mob)Fax: +977-1-4221067
Skype: sundar-gfmc
sharmasp1966@yahoo.com

Mr. Kinley Tshering
Chief Forestry Officer
Forest Protection and Enforcement Division
Department of Forests and Park Services
Ministry of Agriculture and Forests
Royal Government of Bhutan
Tel: +97517113866 (m)
+975 2 324487
Fax: +975 2 322836
kinleytshering@gmail.com

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REGIONAL EURASIAN WILDLAND FIRE NETWORK

Ukraine VIII International Fire Management Week 2019

Boyarka / Oster / Kyiv, Ukraine
5-9 April 2019

The 8th Ukraine International Fire Management Week was held in between 5 and 9 April 2019, organized by the Regional Eastern European Fire Monitoring Center (REEFMC) and the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC). On 5 April 2019 a fire management training course was held for foresters and fire brigade personnel:

On 8 April 2019 the GFMC and REEFMC conducted  field training exercising prescribed burning operations and suppression firing in Oster Military Forest District, Ukraine.

Opening of the Fire Management Training Course in Oster Military Forest District, 08 April 2019. From left to right: Volodymyr Brayko (Director of Oster Military Forest District), Sergiy V. Zibtsev (Head of REEFMC) and Johann Georg Goldammer (GFMC)

Sergiy Zibtsev and J.G. Goldammer addressing the classroom training participants

Classroom training participants

The REEFMC preparatory team: Dr. Vasyl Gumeniuk and Maxim Zibtsev and the Oster Military Forest District Fire Management Team

Start of an exercise backfire (suppression fire) and handing over the drip torch to the course participants

Debriefing and farewell photo of the training session.

On the next day – 9 April 2019 – the Second National Round Table “Fires in the Natural and Cultural Landscapes of Ukraine: Developing a National Policy for the Wildfires Management” provided the floor for a consultation on the draft Law of Ukraine On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine Concerning the Immediate Elimination of the Crisis Situation Due to Forest Fires. The Round Table was an initiative of and hosted by the Regional Eastern Europe Fire Monitoring Center with the support of the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC) and the Council of Europe (Kyiv, REEFMC / National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine (NULESU), Ukraine.

The Round Table was opened by the Rector of NULESU, Prof. Dr. Stanislav Nikolaenko, and by Prof. Dr. Petro Lakyda, Director of the Institute of Forestry and Landscape-Park Management (right). Workshop conveners (Prof. Dr. Sergiy V. Zibtsev and Prof. Dr. Johann Georg Goldammer) at the left.

 

Participants of the Round Table from different Ukrainian agencies, the Parliament, forestry enterprises and academia.

 

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Global Wildland Fire Network Activities 2019

Activities of the Global Wildland Fire Network in 2019

Note: Photographic documentation of some activities is posted on the GFMC Calendar 2019 or on special web pages of the Regional Wildland Fire Networks

28-30 January 2019
Second Workshop of the Thematic Working Group Vegetation (Landscape) Fire Crisis Mitigation (TWG-C) of the project FIRE-IN – Fire and Rescue Innovation Network, a project conducted in the frame of the EU Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2016-2017 Secured Societies – Protecting Freedom and Security of Europe and its Citizens (SEC-21-GM-2016-2017 – Pan-European Networks of Practitioners and other Actors in the Field of Security), chaired by GFMC; Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Officiers de Sapeurs-Pompiers, Aix-en-Provence, France.

31 January 2019
Internal kickoff meeting of the implementation of the project “Network of European hubs for civil protection and crisis management”, with pilot hub “Wildfire Risk Management” (GFMC partner); Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Officiers de Sapeurs-Pompiers, Aix-en-Provence, France.

07-08 February 2019
Submission of the Report of the Committee on the Future of Landscape Fire Management and Wildfire Risk Reduction in Greece (GFMC Chair) to the Prime Minister of Greece, Mr. Alexis Tsipras, and the President of the Hellenic Parliament, Mr. Nikolaos Voutsis, and the leaders of the Parliamentary Commissions leaders (Mrs. Aikaterini Igglezi, MP and Chair of the Special Standing Committee on the Protection of the Environment; Mrs. Chara Kafantari, MP and Chair of the Standing Committee on Production and Commerce; Mr. Mr Antonios Syrigos, MP and Chair of the Standing Committee on Public Administration, Public Order and Justice); Briefing of the President of the Hellenic Republic, Mr. Prokopis Pavlopoulos; Press Conference and meeting with Members of the Hellenic Parliament; Maximos Mansion, Hellenic Parliament, Presidential Mansion (Proedrikό Mégaro), Athens, Greece.

23 February–03 March and 25-29 September2019
Field mission addressing fire management and policy development in Madagascar in the frame of the project “Projet d’appui pour le renforcement des capacités en économie de la gestion durable et de la dégradation des terres”, a cooperative project between the Laboratoire Terres Paysages et Développement (LLandDev) du Département des Eaux et Forêts, Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Agronomiques (ESSA-Forêts), the German Development Corporation GIZ and the SV BoDeN Initiative “ELD et ProSol“; Antananarivo, Ankarafantsika (Tanà + Boeny), Madagascar.

10 March 2019
Visit of the Minister for Environment and Tourism, Members of the Parliament of Mongolia and the Director General of the MET Department of Forest Policy and Coordination and Director of the Regional Fire Management Resource Center – Central Asia Region (RFMR-CAR), Dr. Oyunsanaa Byambasuren, in Germany, with briefing and consultations on cooperation between GFMC and RFMR-CAR/MET; Frankfurt, Germany.

19-21 March 2019
Aerial Firefighting Conference Europe 2019, with GFMC / IFAWG contribution; Nimes, France

08 April 2019
Prescribed burning operations and suppression firing training in Oster Military Forest District conducted by GFMC; Oster Forest District, Ukraine.

09 April 2019
Second National Round Table “Fires in the Natural and Cultural Landscapes of Ukraine: Developing a National Policy for the Wildfires Management”: Consultation on the draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine Concerning the Immediate Elimination of the Crisis Situation Due to Forest Fires”, and initiative of the Regional Eastern Europe Fire Monitoring Center with the support of the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC) and the Council of Europe; Kyiv, REEFMC / National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine (NULESU), Ukraine.

14-17 April and 15-17 July 2019
Follow-up activities of the project “Enhancing National Capacity on Fire Management and Wildfire Disaster Risk Reduction in the South Caucasus”; Georgia.

13-17 May 2019
UNISDR Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GPDRR) 2019, with GFMC participation representing the Global Wildland Fire Network (GWFN) and the Regional Fire Management Resource Centers; UN Geneva, Switzerland

20-21 June 2019
International Seminar on Planning and Prevention of Landscape Fires and the Role of Landscape Restoration, organized by the Corporación Nacional Forestal (CONAF) and the World Resources Institute (WRI) under the Initiative 20×20, sponsored by the German Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, with GFMC GFMC opening keynote address “Landscape fires in the new landscape global scenario. Vision of the Global Fire Monitoring Center“; Santiago de Chile, Chile.

25-26 June 2019
Consultation Workshop on the development of a concept for a European Hub for Civil Protection and Crisis Management in the frame of the implementation of the project Network of European Hubs for Civil Protection and Crisis Management, with pilot hub Wildfire Risk Management (GFMC partner); Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

01-05 July 2019
Toxic Industrial Material Reconnaissance & Assessment Course (TIMRAC) 2019 under the auspices of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), with GFMC Contribution on “Wildfire Hazards Resulting from Collateral Damages of Armed Conflicts

and Post-Conflict Threats by Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) and Land Mines”; Vienna, Austria.

01-04 July 2019
GFMC support for wildfire assessment and incident management on the former Luebtheen military exercise area and weapons depot, with heavy explosions threatening the safety of local populations and firefighters. Deployment of the armoured firefighting system developed by DiBuKa and GFMC; Luebtheen, Germany.

24-28 August 2019
All-Russian conference with international participation, dedicated to 75th anniversary of V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS “Forest Ecosystems of Boreal Zone: Biodiversity, Bioeconomy, Ecological Risks”, with GFMC contribution “Evaluation of achievements in nature-based fire management and development of future cooperative approaches at the science-policy interface in Siberia and adjoining regions of Central Asia”; Sukachev Institute of Forest, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation.

27 August 2019
Round Table “Evaluation of achievements in nature-based fire management and development of future cooperative approaches at the science-policy interface in Siberia and adjoining regions of Central Asia”; Sukachev Institute of Forest, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation.

27 August 2019
Opening of the Regional Eurasia Fire Monitoring Center (REFMC) und the auspices of the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC) and the Global Wildland Fire Network, with support of the Council of Europe (EUR-OPA Major Hazards Agreement); Sukachev Institute of Forest, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation.

10 September 2019
2nd International Conference on Tropical Silviculture (ICTS 2019), with GFMC/GWFN contribution “Revisit of the “Freiburg Declaration on Tropical Fires” of 1989: The Initiation of an International Agenda in Global Landscape Fire Science and Fire Management”; Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), Bogor, West Java, Indonesia.

11 September 2019
Ceremony of handing over the Global Landscape Fire Award 2019, sponsored by the Global Wildland Fire Network to the laureate Dr. Ir. Siti Nurbaya, MSc, Minister for Environment and Forestry, Republic of Indonesia, and Certificates of Distinction for Prof. Dr. Ir. Bambang Hero Saharjo, M.Agr., Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), and Dr. Ir. Raffles Brotestes Panjaitan, MSc, Director of Forest and Land Fire Management, Directorate General of Climate Change, Ministry for Environment and Forestry, Republic of Indonesia; Jakarta, Indonesia.

17 September 2019
Meeting with Executive Director of the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO), Dr. Gerhard Dieterle, with GFMC, concerning coordinated response to the fire situation in South America and the opportunities in implementing the Declaration of Viña del Mar 2017 on Cross-Boundary Cooperation in Fire Management in South America and other joint activities; GFMC.

10-12 October 2019
Implementation of the Fire Management Support Component for Georgia in the frame of the regional programme Integrated Biodiversity Management in the South Caucasus (IBiS) (GIZ): Training course for fire management personnel in Kvareli and finalization of fire management plan for Dedoplistskaro Municipality, Kakheti region; Kvareli and Dedoplistskaro, Georgia.

22 October 2019
Meeting of the Technical Working Group on Sendai Hazard Definitions and Classification, co-facilitated by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and the International Science Council (ISC), tasked with developing new hazard definitions and classifications; WMO, Geneva, Switzerland.

25 October 2019
German Parliament (Bundestag) thematic conference “Impacts of Climate Change on Landscape Fires: Challenges and Solutions for Germany and the European Union” (Fachkonferenz „Auswirkungen des Klimawandels auf Landschaftsbrände – Herausforderungen und Lösungsansätze für Deutschland und die EU“), organized by the Parliamentary Party The Liberals (Freie Demokratische Partei – FDP) in cooperation with GFMC; Deutscher Bundestag, Europe Hall / Europa-Saal, Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany.

28 October – 01 November 2019
Seventh International Wildland Fire Conference (IWFC 7); Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Websites and post-conference activities

13-14 November 2019
Meeting of the CTIF Forest Fires Commission of the International Association of Fire and Rescue Services (Comité Technique International de Prevention et d’Extinction de Feu – CTIF). Theme: Operational organization in the field in very large forest Fires. How to prepare for “The big One”?, with GFMC contributions Landscape fires in Germany 2018-2019: Small size, long duration, extreme impacts and challenges and Global Landscape Fires in 2019: Ridge Walk between Reality, Media Hype and Political-Public Response; Sintra, National Firefighter School, Portugal.

14 November 2019
Planning meeting for the 8th International Wildland Fire Conference; Lisbon, Portugal.

13 December 2019
Meeting of the Committee on Environmental Policy and Environmental Management of the Parliament of Ukraine (Verkhovna Rada) at Boyarka Forest Research Station, with a visit of the members of the Parliament at an exposition of the Regional Eastern Europe Fire Monitoring Center (REEFMC). During the meeting the draft Law of Ukraine on Improvement of Fire Management in the Cultural and Natural Landscapes, developed with the support of the Council of Europe (EUR-OPA) and the GFMC, and the plans to establish a Fire Research and Training Center in Boyarka Station was presented to parliament members. It was agreed that the Law need to be presented for Parliament for implementation and to prepare a meeting of the Committee devoted to address landscape fires with representatives of REEFMC.

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Global Wildland Fire Network Activities 2018

Activities of the Global Wildland Fire Network in 2018

Note: Photographic documentation of some activities is posted on the GFMC Calendar 2018 or on special web pages of the Regional Wildland Fire Networks

28 January – 03 February 2018
Implementation of the Fire Management Support Component for Georgia by GFMC in the frame of the regional programme Integrated Biodiversity Management in the South Caucasus (IBiS) (GIZ) and preparation of the project Fire Management Planning for target Protected Areas in the frame of the Support Programme for Protected Areas – Georgia (KfW) (J.G. Goldammer); Tbilisi, Borjomi and Dedoplistskaro, Georgia.

28 February – 01 March 2018
First Workshop of the Thematic Working Group Vegetation (Landscape) Fire Crisis Mitigation (TWG-C) of the project FIRE-IN – Fire and Rescue Innovation Network, a project conducted in the frame of the EU Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2016-2017 Secured Societies – Protecting Freedom and Security of Europe and its Citizens (SEC-21-GM-2016-2017 – Pan-European Networks of Practitioners and other Actors in the Field of Security), chaired by GFMC; Federal German Agency for Technical Relief (Bundesanstalt Technisches Hilfswerk), Berlin, Germany.

01 March 2018

Meeting and consultations between the Presidents of the Federal German Agency for Technical Relief (Bundesanstalt Technisches Hilfswerk), Albrecht Broemme, the International Association of Fire and Rescue Services (CTIF), Tore Eriksson, and GFMC (Johann Georg Goldammer); Federal German Agency for Technical Relief (Bundesanstalt Technisches Hilfswerk), Berlin, Germany.

07-09 March 2018
Planning meeting of the International Liaison Committee (ILC) of the 7th International Wildland Fire Conference (Campo Grande, Brazil, May 2019); Campo Grande, Brazil.

5-18 March 2018
Seventh International Convention of Environmental Laureates: “Ecological Foodprint” with GFMC participation; Freiburg, Germany.

21 March 2018
Consultation and working meeting within the framework of the OSCE project Improving radiological and environmental awareness in territories affected by the Chernobyl accident in Belarus and Ukraine with a focus on wildfire management, with remote participation of project partner GFMC; Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Belarus, Gomel, Belarus.

20 April 2018
Working meeting to evaluate the progress of the Study on Currently Available Aerial Forest Fire Fighting Assets at the European Commission, ECHO.A – Emergency Management, A.1 – Emergency Response Coordination Centre (ERCC) (GFMC Contractor); European Commission, Brussels, Belgium.

17-18 May 2018
Bilateral fire emergency response exercise between Belarus and Ukraine in the frame of the project Improving radiological and environmental awareness in territories affected by the Chernobyl accident in Belarus and Ukraine with a focus on wildfire management, coordinated by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the Regional Eastern European Fire Monitoring Center (REEFMRC) and GFMC; Gomel Oblast Department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Belarus, Gomel, Belarus.

04 June 2018
19th Round Table of the European Fire Academy How to deal with major Disasters – What should be the best European response?, with GFMC contribution Landscape Fires; Directorate General Security and Prevention, Brussels, Belgium.

06-07 June 2018
Regional Round Table and Consultation Enhancing Regional Cooperation in Fire Management in South East Asia, organized by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Republic of Indonesia, the Regional Fire Management Resource Center South East Asia (RFMRC-SEA) and GFMC; Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Manggala Wanabhakti, Jakarta, and RFMRC-SEA, Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia.

16-19 June 2018
Implementation of the Fire Management Support Component for Georgia in the frame of the regional programme Integrated Biodiversity Management in the South Caucasus (IBiS) (GIZ): Training course for fire management personnel in Kakheti region (Akhmeta and Dedoplistskaro Districts (GFMC contractor); Kakheti / Akhmeta and Tbilisi, Georgia.

21 June – 03 July 2018
Second GFMC field mission and community-based fire management training in the frame of the forest rehabilitation project of Lernen-Helfen-Leben e.V. in Democratic Republic of Congo; South Kivu Province (Regions Burhinyi, Luhwinja, Kaziba, Mushenyi and Nyangezi) D.R. Congo.

25-27 June 2018
Workshop of the project FIRE-IN – Fire and Rescue Innovation Network, a project conducted in the frame of the EU Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2016-2017 Secured Societies – Protecting Freedom and Security of Europe and its Citizens (SEC-21-GM-2016-2017 – Pan-European Networks of Practitioners and other Actors in the Field of Security), with public presentation of the Thematic Working Group Vegetation (Landscape) Fire Crisis Mitigation (TWG-C) chaired by GFMC; Istituto Superiore Antincendi, Rome, Italy.

03-06 July 2018
Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (AMCDRR), with joint presentations of the GFMC, the Regional Fire Management Resource Center – Central Asia Region (RFMRC-CAR) and the Regional Fire Management Resource Center – South East Central Asia (RFMRC-SEA), with contribution in the Side Event on Forest Fire-Related Risks on Challenges and Progress made in National Capacity Building in Landscape Fire Management in the Asian Region and at Global Level: Towards the Implementation of Target E of the Sendai Framework and presentation of the joint statement Current and Future Consequences of Fires Affecting the Landscapes of Asia: Call for Regional and Global Action to Reduce the Adverse Impacts of Fire on the Environment and Society; Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

23 August 2018
Meeting between the head of GFMC and Prime Minister of Greece, Mr. AlexisTsipras, on the establishment and the modus operandi of the “Committee on the Future of Landscape Fire Management and Wildfire Risk Reduction in Greece”; Maximos Mansion, Athens, Greece.

03 September 2018
Joint meeting with the Secretariats of Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the Council of Europe’s European and Mediterranean Major Hazards Agreement (EUR-OPA), the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction / UNISDR and the Global Wildland Fire Network / Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC) “Streamlining International Cooperation in Landscape Fire Management: Development of a Joint Agenda between UNISDR, Council of Europe (EUR-OPA), OSCE and the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC)” (J.G. Goldammer); Office of the Coordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities (OCEEA), Vienna.

10 September 2018
Meeting of the preparatory mission for the development of a tri-lateral project between Ecuador, Brazil and Costa Rica, with the support of Germany “Strengthening Technical and Institutional Capacities in Ecuador in Integrated Fire Management in Conservation Areas” (Misión de Preparación de la Propuesta Cooperación Trilateral Ecuador – Brasil – Costa Rica – Alemania: “Fortalecimiento de las Capacidades Técnicas e Institucionales en el Ecuador para el Manejo Integral del Fuego en Áreas de Conservación”); with online participation of the GFMC, Quito, Ecuador, and Freiburg, Germany.

17-19 September 2018
Meeting of the CTIF Forest Fires Commission of the International Association of Fire and Rescue Services (Comité Technique International de prevention et d’extinction de Feu – CTIF) with GFMC participation; Sessa, Ticino, Switzerland.

28-29 September 2018
International Conference on Culture Against Disasters: Protecting Cultural Landscapes as Prevention of Natural Disasters, with GFMC contribution “Wildfire Risks and Fire Use in Changing Cultural Landscapes: Underlying Causes, Challenges and Options for Integrated Landscape Fire Management in a Green Economy” on behalf the European Major Hazards Agreement EUR-OPA; Ravello, Italy.

12 October 2018
Meeting of the Eurasia Team of Specialists on Landscape Fire Management, GFMC, Freiburg, Germany.

13 October 2018
Meeting of the UNISDR Wildland Fire Advisory Group (WFAG) in conjunction with the meeting of the International Liaison Committee (ILC) and the Brazilian Conference Organizing Committee for the 7th International Wildland Fire Conference; GFMC, Freiburg, Germany.

14 October 2018
Meeting of the International Liaison Committee (ILC) and the Brazilian Conference Organizing Committee for the 7th International Wildland Fire Conference in conjunction with the meeting of the UNISDR Wildland Fire Advisory Group (WFAG); GFMC, Freiburg, Germany.

04-07 November 2018

Joint Meeting of the Committee of Permanent Correspondents and Directors of Specialised Centres, European and Mediterranean Major Hazards Agreement (EUR-OPA), with GFMC report on the 2018 achievements in the establishment and launching of work of the Eurasia Team of Specialists on Landscape Fire Management; Zagreb, Croatia.

11 December 2018
National Round Table on the Future of Landscape Fire Management in Greece, convened by the Committee on the Future of Landscape Fire Management and Wildfire Risk Reduction in Greece” (GFMC Chair) and the Office of the Prime Minister of Greece; Athens, Greece.

17-19 December 2018
Regional Workshop Landscape Fire Management in South Eastern Europe, organized by the Regional Fire Monitoring Center For SE Europe / Caucasus (RFMC) and GFMC, on behalf of the Office of the Coordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities, with the topics: (a) Review of the state and need for further development of national and regional early warning systems, fire management information systems and exchange of data and information at regional SEE level; (b) Review of national fire management systems: Current situation, policies and inter-agency cooperation; (c) Needs for future building and strengthening of volunteer firefighting services; (d) Strengthening national and cross-boundary fire management capacities for complementing and increase effectiveness of the EU Civil Protection Mechanism in the SEE neighborhood; (e) Fire management on terrain contaminated by unexploded ordnance (UXO) and land mines, and (f) Discussion on modalities for strengthening the regional co-operation on Fire Management; Hotel Solun, Skopje, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

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REGIONAL SOUTH AMERICA WILDLAND FIRE NETWORK

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Follow-up of the Wildfire Emergency in Chile 2017:
The Second Regional Consultation on Cross-boundary Cooperation
in Fire Management in South America

Viña del Mar, Chile. 2-3 October 2017

The GFMC and the Chilean authorities decided to follow up the First Regional Symposium on Cross-Boundary Cooperation in Fire Management in South America / Primer Simposio Regional de Cooperación en Manejo del Fuego Inter-Fronterizo en Sudamerica (held in Uruguay in May 2016) and to convene a second regional consultation.

On 2-3 October 2017 the National Forest Corporation of Chile (Corporación Nacional Forestal – CONAF) and GFMC convened the Second Regional Symposium and Consultation on Cross-boundary Cooperation in Fire Management in South America in Viña del Mar, Chile. The consultation was supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Interior and Public Safety, and the Ministry of Agriculture of Chile, with the patronage of the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL). The Consultation was attended by delegates of organizations and agencies of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. The consultation built on the recommendations of Uruguay 2016 and the lessons identified during the wildfire emergency in Chile in 2017 and addressed:

  • Review of existing rules and agreements on cross-boundary cooperation in fire management, including bilateral and multilateral cooperation during wildfire emergencies
  • Develop a proposal for developing a set of guidelines, SOPs and protocols for joint capacity building and enhancement of interoperability in the preparedness of border-crossing cooperation during fire emergencies
  • To prepare a recommendation for the development of an Addendum and a Manual of Procedures for International Cross-border Cooperation for Enhancing Preparedness for Managing Wildfire Emergencies in the Region, for its presentation on the part of the Chancelleries of the countries of the Region to the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) to serve as platform of cooperation in the Region responsible for sustaining and supporting the constitution and strengthening the activities of the Regional Network
  • Establishment of a Regional Fire Management Resource Center with two main proposed branches to foster regional capacities in (a) vegetation fire science, education and training, and (b) operational coordination of cross-boundary fire management

The participants of the consultation released the Declaración de Viña del Mar 2017 / Declaration of Viña del Mar 2017 on Cross-Boundary Cooperation in Fire Management in South America, which has been followed-up by CONAF in late 2017 and early 2018. The following web pages and documents preceding the consultation and the Declaration of Viña del Mar 2017:

Country representatives from nine South American countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela) agreed on the “Viña del Mar Declaration on Cross-boundary Cooperation in Fire Management”. Photo: CONAF.Aaron Cavieres, Executive Director of Corporacion Nacional Forestal (CONAF) opened the consultation. Photo: CONAF.
 From left to right: Patricio Sanhueza (Chairman), Ricardo Toro (Executive Director, Oficina Nacional de Emergencia del Ministerio del Interior – ONEMI), Johann G. Goldammer (GFMCC) and Aaron Cavieres (CONAF). Photo: CONAF.[/caption] Signing of a cooperation agreement between CONAF (A. Cavieres) and GMFC (J.G. Goldammer). Photo: CONAF.

 

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SavFIRE


AfriFireNet

 

 

 

2006 – 2010

Savanna Fire Ignition Research Experiment (SavFIRE):

Effects of point versus perimeter ignitions on fire mosaics
in the Kruger National Park

  • Background information

  • Research Proposal

  • Final Report

  • Photos

  • Website

  • Contacts

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WFTCA-ICS

 

Intermediate and Advanced 
Incident Command Course

As one Summit-Output the International Wildland Fire Summit (Sydney, Australia, 8 October 2003) agreed that an Incident Command System (ICS) as presented in Summit Paper 3 should become the international standard for all wildland incident management participating in international or interagency agreements and exchanges. (https://gfmc.online/summit-2003/introduction.htm)

To implement the outputs of the International Wildland Fire Summit the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC) and its activity AfriFireNet are supporting the Working on Fire Programme to offer the following courses:

Intermediate and Advanced Incident Command Course

ICS Logistics Section Chief

The GFMC will support a number of participants from SADC Countries.

For further information please contact:

 

Alexander C. Held
Coordinator
Regional Subsahara Wildland Fire Network
Club Road, Nelspruit old Air Field  
Nelspruit 1200
SOUTH AFRICA

Tel:      +27-13 7417340
e-mail: alex @ wof-int.com

Chris Austin
Wildland Fire Training Center Africa
Working on Fire Int
Club Road, Nelspruit old Air Field 
Nelspruit 1200 
SOUTH AFRICA  

Tel:      +27-13 7417340
e-mail: chris @ wofire.co.za 

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WFTCA-ICS

 

Intermediate and Advanced 
Incident Command Course

As one Summit-Output the International Wildland Fire Summit (Sydney, Australia, 8 October 2003) agreed that an Incident Command System (ICS) as presented in Summit Paper 3 should become the international standard for all wildland incident management participating in international or interagency agreements and exchanges. (https://gfmc.online/summit-2003/introduction.htm)

To implement the outputs of the International Wildland Fire Summit the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC) and its activity AfriFireNet are supporting the Working on Fire Programme to offer the following courses:

Intermediate and Advanced Incident Command Course

ICS Logistics Section Chief

The GFMC will support a number of participants from SADC Countries.

For further information please contact:

 

Alexander C. Held
Coordinator
Regional Subsahara Wildland Fire Network
Club Road, Nelspruit old Air Field  
Nelspruit 1200
SOUTH AFRICA

Tel:      +27-13 7417340
e-mail: alex @ wof-int.com

Chris Austin
Wildland Fire Training Center Africa
Working on Fire Int
Club Road, Nelspruit old Air Field 
Nelspruit 1200 
SOUTH AFRICA  

Tel:      +27-13 7417340
e-mail: chris @ wofire.co.za 

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SavFIRE


AfriFireNet

                                                          

 

 

Final Report

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