Eurasian Fire in Nature Conservation Network (EFNCN)
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Fire Experiments, Training and Demonstrations
Conferences, Meetings
2023
- TransParcNet Meeting 2023 “Fire and Water – How to deal with ‘natural’ disasters in transboundary parks cooperation?” German-Dutch Nature Park Maas-Schwalm-Nette, 21-13 June 2023
2022
- First Bloemendaal Round Table on Fire Management in Nationaal Park Zuid Kennemerland and Adjoining Residential Areas, facilitated by GMFC, with GFMC introduction Fire Management in Forests and Nature Conservation Areas – and Wildfire Safety: History, Current Practices and Future Challenges. Implications for Gaaienbos / Nationaal Park Zuid Kennemerland and Adjoining Residential Areas; Nationaal Park Zuid Kennemerland, Gaaienbos Forest and Bloemendaal City Hall, The Netherlands.
2021
- The RESILPINE Project: Transformation of pine forests to close-to-nature forest management in Ukraine – with special consideration of resilience to fire and climate extremes such as drought
2020
- Launch of the website “Natural Hazards – Landscape Fires” as part of BeSafeNet to provide basic understanding of the fundamentals of landscape fire and how people can protect themselves and their assets from the threats of wildfires. The website is tailored for high school students (age 15-17 years) (23 January 2020).
- Regional planning workshop “Climate Change and Landscape Fire Management in the Western Balkans” conducted by the Regional Fire Monitoring Center for Southeast Europe / South Caucasus (RFMC) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), with GFMC backstopping and contribution “Climate change and landscape fire management – global and regional challenges”; Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia (06-07 February 2020).
2019
- Prescribed conservation burning in Zschornoer Wald Nature Reserve (Germany), associated with the FireSense experiment aimed at development of improved algorithms and products for the quantitative assessments of landscape fires and their emissions of trace gases and aerosols or validation and calibration of satellite by testing polar-orbiting satellites accompanied with fixed-wing aircraft and UAV (23 March 2019)
- 8th Ukraine International Fire Management Week (Boyarka, Kyiv, 5-9 April 2019)
2018
- Prescribed burning operations in dune heathland conservation area Morsum-Kliff on Sylt Island, Germany (17 July 2018)
- Prescribed burning seminar and field training Mit Feuer und Flamme für den Naturschutz: Anwendung des Kontrollierten Feuers in Naturschutz und Landschaftspflege, conducted by Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC) in the frame of the project Bergheiden im Rothaargebirge“ (Winterberg, Germany, 8-9 November 2018)
Winterberg agenda (PDF, 0.4 MB)
2017
- Fire for LIFE! Workshop on Restoration Burning and Management of Sunlit Forested Habitats (Lammi, Finland, 25-27 April 2017)
Draft Lammi Agenda (PDF, 0.4 MB) - 3rd International Workshop “Challenges on Military Land Management: Complementary Aspects & Common Goals in Natural Resources Management on Military Lands” (Illmitz, Burgenland, Austria, 15-17 May 2017)
Draft Illmitz Agenda (PDF, 0.2 MB) - Forum Integrated Fire Management: New Approaches in Forest Protection and Nature Conservation (LIGNA 2017 – Wood Industry Summit, Hanover, Germany, 25 May 2017)
Draft Hanover Agenda (PDF, 0.1. MB)
2016
- Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) Europe Conference 2016, with a Special Session “Fire in ecosystem dynamics and restoration” (22 August 2016), a session held in conjunction with the EFNCN:
Special Session Agenda (PDF, 0.1 MB)
Special Session Abstracts (PDF, 0.3 MB)
2015
- Poland: First National Conference “Fire in Forest Management and Nature Conservation”, and a scientific-technical prescribed fire experiment (demonstration burn) (Lagow and Forest District Przemkow, 17-18 March 2015)
- Ukraine: V International Fire Management Week (Kyiv / Boyarka, Ukraine, 6-9 April 2014)
2014
- Nationwide Training Sessions for the Use of Prescribed Fire in Conservation by the German Federal Forest Service (conducted in the German States Brandenburg, North Rhine Westphalia and Bavaria, February)
- Ukraine: V International Fire Management Week (Kyiv / Boyarka, Ukraine, 6-9 April 2014)
https://gfmc.online/intro/2015/update-1010/REEFMC-Fire-Experiment-Boyarka-Ukraine-2014.pdf - Outputs of the project “Prescribed burning on former military terrain contaminated by unexploded ordnance [UXO]” (2006-2014; Brandenburg State, Germany)
2013
- Second International Fire Management Week (17-23 June 2013, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia)
2012
- First International Fire Management Week (2-8 September 2012, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia)
2010
- Towards Integrated Wildland Fire Management – Outcomes of the European Project “Fire Paradox”: Internal and External Closing Meetings for Policy and Decision Makers (25-26 February 2010, Freiburg, Germany)
- GFMC Repository of Prescribed Burning Sites in temperate-boreal Eurasia (25 February 2010)
2009
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International Conference on Fire and Restoration in Boreal Forests (15-18 September 2009, Sundsvall, Sweden)
2008
- 14th Conference of the International Boreal Forest Research Association (IBFRA) (22-27 September 2008, Harbin, China)
- 10th National Heathland Conference 2008: Managing Heathlands in the Face of Climate Change (9 – 11 September 2008, York, UK)
- FIRES – Interdisciplinary Research on Ecosystem Services: Fire and Climate Change in UK Moorlands and Heaths – Seminar series in March and June 2008 (31 March – 1 April 2008, Edinburgh, UK, and 24 June 2008, Manchester, UK)
- Symposium on Fire Management in Cultural and Natural Landscapes, Nature Conservation and Forestry in Temperate-Boreal Eurasia (25-27 January 2008, Freiburg, Germany)
2007
- Fire and Forests – International Symposium Organized by Green Belt Life Nature Project (13-14 November 2007, Kajaani, Finland)
- 10th European Heathland Workshop (PDF, 0.4 MB) (24 June – 1 July 2007, Trondheim, Norway)
- The Capercaillie Fire Experiment: Prescribed burning for restoring Capercaillie (Tetrao urugallus) habitats in the Black Forest, Germany) (Yach, Germany, 20-21 April 2007)
2006
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13th Conference of the International Boreal Forest Research Association (IBFRA) (28-30 August 2006, Umea, Sweden)
2005
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9th European Heathland Workshop (14-18 September 2005, Belgium)
2004
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Fire and grazing as instruments for maintaining nutrient-poor open landscapes in Northwestern Germany (Camp Reinsehlen, Schneverdingen, Germany, 26-27 February 2004)
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