Regional Mesoamerica Wildland Fire Network

A Region of the Global Wildland Fire Network


The Mesoamerica Region – all countries between Mexico and Panama – are suffering excessive application of fire in land-use change and wildfires in the lowlands and the mountain forests. As a consequence of the severe fire episode during the El Niño drought of 1998 a series of cooperative efforts in landscape fire management were initiated within Mesoamerica. International support has facilitated a number of national and multinational fire management projects in the region. A Mesoamerica Regional Forest Fire Meeting in 2002 provided the foundation for regional cooperation in fire management. In March 2006 the Comisión Centroamericana de Ambiente y Desarrollo (CCAD) officially released the regional “Centralamerican Strategy for Wildland Fire Management”. It was elaborated by the Network Focal Points, together with the assistance of FAO and GFMC. 


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