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.
- Rationale and Introduction
- Network Coordination and Regional Wildland Fire Management Coordination
- Country Focal Points
- Background Information, Regional and National Wildland Fire Reports
- Wildland Fire Early Warning and Monitoring
- Institutions, Projects and other Wildland Fire Links
- Regional Wildland Fire Research Publications
- Pan-American Wildland Fire Conference (San José, Costa Rica, 21-24 October 2004)
- Estrategia Centroamericana para el Manejo del Fuego (2005-2015)
- Meetings, Conferences, Wildland Fire Training
