Global Wildland Fire Network Activities 2004
Activities of the Global Wildland Fire Network in 2004:
- Foundation Meeting of the Regional Northeast Asia Wildland Fire Network (5-6 March 2004, Seoul, Korea)
- Conference on Forest Fire Management and International Cooperation in Fire Emergencies in the Eastern Mediterranean, Balkans and adjoining Regions of the Near East and Central Asia (30 March – 3 April 2004, Antalya, Turkey)
- Joint meeting of the International Liaison Committee (ILC) and the UN-ISDR Working Group on Wildland Fire: Side meeting at the Second International Symposium on Fire Economics, Planning and Policy: A Global Vision (19-22 April 2004, Córdoba, Spain)
- Regional Baltic Meeting on Cooperation in Wildland Fire Management (10 May 2004, Helsinki, Finland) (by invitation only; more information will be added in May 2004)
- Global Fire Experts Workshop of the TNC-WWF-IUCN Global Fire Partnership (16-18 May 2004, Switzerland)
- Joint UN Inter-Agency Advanced Wildland Fire Management Training Course and Regional Consultation for the Southern African Development Community (SADC) (Nelspruit, South Africa, 30 May 5 June 2004)
- 3rd South American Symposium on Wildland Fire Control and 7th Joint Technical Meeting FUPEF/SIF/IPEF on Wildland Fire Control jointly with the Foundation of the Regional South America Wildland Fire Network (14-17 June 2004, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil)
- 38th Annual Meeting of the North American Forest Commission Fire Management Working Group (28-30 September 2004, Chihuahua City, Chihuahua State, Mexico)
- Meeting of the Regional Wildland Fire Networks of South America, Mesoamerica and the Caribbean in conjunction with the Pan-American Wildland Fire Conference (San José, Costa Rica, 21-24 October 2004)
- Regional Subsahara Training Course for Instructors in Community Based Forest Fire Management (30 October-12 November 2004, Nelspruit, South Africa)
- ASEAN Haze Technical Task Force (HTTF) meeting and ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Haze (back to back with the First Meeting of COP to the ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution (8-11 November 2004, Viet Nam) (see alsoStatus Paper of the Global Wildland Fire Network, 24 December 2004)
- Regional Central Asian Forest Congress Forest Policy: Problems and Solutions (Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, 25-27 November 2004)
- First Meeting of the UN-ISDR Wildland Fire Advisory Group and the Global Wildland Fire Network and International Liaison Committee for the 4th International Wildland Fire Conference (3-4 and 2 December 2004, GFMC, Freiburg, Germany)
- Summary publication of the activities of the Global Wildland Fire Network in 2004 (Special Issue of ECE/FAO International Forest Fire News – IFFN No.31)