Regional South Asia Wildland Fire Network – Meetings
A Region of the Global Wildland Fire Network
National and Regional Meetings, Workshops and Activities
Regional South Asia / Pan-Asia
- Regional Consultative Workshop on Cross-Boundary Cooperation in Fire Management in South Asia (2-4 October 2016, Lalitpur, Nepal)
- Regional Pan-Asia / Pacific Consultation on Building Advanced National and Regional Capacities in Integrated Fire Management based on Participatory Involvement of Local Communities (20-22 November 2012, Lalitpur, Nepal)
- Foundation Meeting of the Regional South Asia Wildland Fire Network (2-3 April 2007, Kathmandu, Nepal)
Nepal
- Firefighting Equipment and Training Support to District Forest Offices of Nepal, Supported Multi Stakeholder Forestry Programme (MSFP) and implemented by Nepal Forest Fire Management Chapter (NFMC), May 2013 (PDF, 0.5 MB)
- Forest Fire Management Training Programs in TAL and CHAL Areas of Hariyo Ban Program of WWF Nepal, May 2012 (PDF, 3.0 MB)
- Development of a Policy, a Strategy and Building Capacities in Local, National and Transboundary Forest Fire Management for Nepal (1 February to 31 July 2009, Nepal)
- Round Table for the Development of a National Strategy for Wildland Fire Management in Nepal (16 December 2007, Kathmandu, Nepal)
- Community Level Fire Management Planning (1 August-31 December 2007, Nepal)
- Community-Based Fire Management Training: An approach towards participatory planning (9-15 October 2007, Chaukitole, Hetauda, Nepal)
- District Level Fire Management Planning (1 August-31 December 2007, Nepal)
Bhutan
- National Consultative Workshop on Incident Command System and Development of Disaster and Forest Fire Management Strategy for Bhutan (25 – 27 January 2008, Thimpu, Bhutan)
- The Bhutan National Adaptation Plan of Actions (NAPA) is promoting Community-Based Fire Management (CBFiM) to prevent forest fires
India
- Training on Techniques of Eco Friendly Wild Honey Harvesting – Capacity Building Series (2007- 2008) (27-29 December 2007, Orchha, Madhya Pradesh, India)
Due to the lack of awareness and alternative scientific methods, honey is still being gathered from wild bees by smoking and burning methods. This causes tremendous loss to ecosystem because burning of adult bees hampers the natural process of cross-pollination in flowering vegetation and it also leads to big forest fires especially during the summer months. Very recently, bee-scientists have developed eco-friendly management practices even for wild bee-species like Apis dorsata. - A workshop Forest Fires in India was held in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, 19 to 23 February 2007 for the preparation of a research project on wild land fires in India. The proceedings comprise extended abstracts of the presentations made during the workshop and a summary of the discussions during the workshop. The workshop was organized by the Institute of Silviculture, University of Freiburg(Germany), ATREE Bangalore and Delhi (India) and the Evergreen Trust, Genguvarpatti (India). It was supported by funds from the Foundation for Ecological Security, Anand (India) and ATREE.
Proceedings Forest Fire Workshop, Madurai, 2007 (PDF, 0.5 MB)
