Global Fire Monitoring Centre (GFMC) Tool 9 – Capacity Building in the Application of Principles of Integrated Fire Management in Biodiversity Management, Nature Conservation, and Protected Areas Management

Brief description of the tool: Historically many natural and cultural landscapes have been influenced and shaped by natural fire and burning practices by aboriginal populations. The use of fire has helped shape ecosystems and landscape patterns of high ecological and cultural diversity, e.g. heathlands, open grasslands, meadows, and swidden (shifting) agriculture sites. Certain natural and cultural fire regimes contribute to ecosystem stability, high biodiversity and carbon storage. Many countries are lacking the knowledge to integrate natural and prescribed management of fires to maintain these assets. The targeted use of prescribed fire in some ecosystems will also remove combustible material under “controlled” conditions and result in reduced likelihood and intensity of severe wildfires, including the secondary consequences of wildfires (erosion, surface runoff, flash floods, land- and mudslides, rock fall etc.) and ecosystem degradation including depletion of terrestrial carbon pools. Targeted capacity building is offered by GFMC and the Regional Wildland Fire Networks and the Regional Fire Management Resource Centers, respectively, to promote the understanding and apply methods of Integrated Fire Management (IFM), including the use of prescribed fire.

Related resources:

• Tool 1 – Global Landscape Fire Information System
• Tool 2 – Regional Wildland Fire Networks under the Aegis of the Global Wildland Fire Network
• Tool 3 – International and Regional Advisory Bodies / Services for Landscape Fire Management
• Tool 4 – Global Wildland Fire Early Warning System and Global Portal for National and Regional Wildland Fire Early Warning
• Tool 5 – International Support Tools / Services for Wildfire Emergency Response
• Tool 6 – Services of Regional Fire Management Resource Centers Associated with GFMC
• Tool 7 – National Round Tables on Landscape Fire Management
• Tool 8 – Systematic Application of Outreach Work in Participatory (Community-Based) Integrated Fire Management
• Tool 9 – Capacity Building in the Application of Principles of Integrated Fire Management in Biodiversity Management, Nature Conservation, and Protected Areas Management

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