January

• GFMC: Recent Media Highlights on Fire, Policies, and Politics
• Climate change could fuel China’s forest fires
• El Gobierno realiza un seguimiento de “puntos calientes” a través de satélites para evitar incendios forestales
• Fire officials greenlight fire-safety project
• UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon appoints Sir John
• Controlled burn
• Missoulian to become 1st female forest chief
• Jambi, Singapore Discuss Forest Fire
• Wildfire threatens seaside homes near Los Angeles
• Polipoli forest reserve blaze still burning

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Febuary

• GFMC: Recent Media Highlights on Fire, Policies, and Politics
• Nepal Forest Fire Management Chapter – Media
• Smoking out the world’s lungs
• Wildland Urban Interface: We’re not losing the battle—it just feels that way
• Gun-shy about fighting wildfires
• La amenaza constante de los incendios forestales
• Por incendios en Cota evacuan 15 familias
• Northland forest fire still smouldering after 12 days
• La situación de Valle Alto es crítica: Corpocaldas
• Criminal charges make wildfire supervisors reluctant to serve

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March

• GFMC: Recent Media Highlights on Fire, Policies, and Politics
• Heroes short-changed
• En lo que va de temporada
• Relief in sight as weather change rescues Northern haze victims
• ACT government releases official bushfire inquest response
• Arranca programa contra incendios
• 6,000 people mobilised to douse China forest fire
• After brief respite, haze again covers North
• Bush fires in California
• Incendio amenaza acabar con los bosques de Guaremal

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April

• GFMC: Recent Media Highlights on Fire, Policies, and Politics
• Dangerous haze in far North
• Cigarette probably started bush fire: police
• La vida y los bosques
• Activos, 3 incendios forestales en Durango
• Rise in grass blazes
• Exhausted firefighters save homes
• Denotan incendios forestales fallas en la prevención
• Officials in the dark when it comes to green issues
• Registra Edomex 561 incendios forestales en 2007

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May

• GFMC: Recent Media Highlights on Fire, Policies, and Politics
• Un incendie de forêt hors de contrôle dans l’Est de la Chine
• Six people killed by wildland-residential interface fires in Minusinsk, Krasnyoarsk Region, Russia
• Transcontinental Wildfire Emissions Monitored From Space
• Koperberg gets two climate change departments
• World Bank Eyes $250 Million Deal To Save Forests
• Un incendie de forét prés de la frontiére sino-russe maîtrisé
• Indonesia Makes It To 2008 Guinness World Records As Fastest
• Gran incendio obliga a movilizar a un millar de bomberos en noreste China
• UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. John Holmes, challenging the international community to enhancing international cooperation to reduce the negative impacts of fire on the environment and humanity

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June

• GFMC: Recent Media Highlights on Fire, Policies, and Politics
• FIRE CAUSES LOSS TO FOREST WEALTH IN SIRMOUR AREA OF HIMACHAL
• Moloka’i brush fire reportedly contained
• Forest fire in Himachal wipes out 2000 hectares of greenery
• Indonesia threatened by global warming, rising sea levels
• Forest Fires Trigger Mine Explosions
• For Peat’s Sake
• Orangutans Flee Illegal Loggers in Indonesian Parks
• TT’s forests on fire
• Local man lends expertise in fighting Georgia wildfire

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July

• GFMC: Recent Media Highlights on Fire, Policies, and Politics
• A crime without punishment
• Cinq pompiers blessés lors d’un incendie dans le Var
• Fires across Serbia under control
• Macedonia – UN provides $230.000 aid to combat forest fires
• Farmers see red after inferno
• Corinth blaze burns homes in its path
• Forest fire traps villagers in central Greece
• Zimbabwe: Agency Embarks on Veld Fire Prevention Project
• Macedonia – French firefighters to battle wildfires in Macedonia

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August

• GFMC: Recent Media Highlights on Fire, Policies, and Politics
• Swan Lake wildfire called a ‘good burn’
• Forest fire in western Turkey destroys 350 hectares of forest
• CAL FIRE Holds Classes on New Wildland-Urban Interface Building Standards
• Salvation Army Repsonds to Massive Wildfire in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
• Protected area damaged in Knysna fire
• Evacuations urged in rural SoCal area as huge wildfire grows
• Forest fires in Europe: A combustible mixture
• Haze speeds up melting of Himalayan glaciers
• Mpumalanga fires under control

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September

• GFMC: Recent Media Highlights on Fire, Policies, and Politics
• Bald and Babcock Wildland Fire Use Fires Grow in Yosemite National Park
• Paraguay airport back to normal operations as smoke from forest fires clears
• Zimbabwe: Veld Fires Wreak Havoc
• Experts: Learn lesson from Cemetery Fire
• Police: tourists killed in fire
• The Proof of Climate Change and the Inevitability of 2oC
• Zimbabwe: More Needed to Fight Veld Fires
• Mpuma fires rage on
• Fire (Relationship to Global Warming) — Summary

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Oktober

• GFMC: Recent Media Highlights on Fire, Policies, and Politics
• Indonesia to Plant 79 Million Trees in One Day
• Cost of wildfires raises zoning issues
• California bushfires recall al-Qaeda arson threat
• California rejects top Russian firefighting plane
• A fire lookout watches over California forest paradise
• Editorial: Firefighting opportunities lost
• Deforestation Needs to be in Next Climate Pact
• No Relief In Sight as Kalimantan Battles Fires
• FEMA Chief Pleased with Wildfire Response

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November

• GFMC: Recent Media Highlights on Fire, Policies, and Politics
• India loses Rs 500cr annually to forest fires
• Australia pledges US$27.7m to Indonesian Forests
• Israel admits phosphorus bombing
• Better homes, defensible space key to wildfire protection
• DOC Fight Fire In Protected Chathams Peat Forest
• Dutch: no subsidies for biofuels-driven rainforest destruction
• Western Power to boost country bushfire brigades
• ‘Four in five fires started deliberately’
• Greenpeace activists block Indonesian palm oil shipment to protest rain forest destruction

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December

• GFMC: Recent Media Highlights on Fire, Policies, and Politics
• Why landowners should form and join fire protection associations 
• Army kept out of SA bushfire fight
• Emergency Calls Up
• Drought means 2008 brush fire season could be a record breaker
• Federal appeals court strikes down White House forest fire rule
• A burning need for more volunteers
• Forest on Fire
• Defenses may take hit due to budget ills
• Two Teenage Boys Transported To Hospital After Fighting Grass Fire

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