INTERNATIONAL PEATLAND FIRE NETWORK

An Activity of the Global Wildland Fire Network

Peatland Fire Management

Guidelines for Fire Management on Peatlands

Temperate and Boreal Zone: With accelerating land-use change and climate change in temperate-boreal Eurasia the properties of organic terrain, which has accumulated in wetlands (moors, mires, and peat and turf lands), are gradually changing and becoming increasingly flammable. This is especially the case in wetlands that have been drained in the 19th and 20th centuries. After the severe drought and widespread wildfires in Western Russia in 2010, which had penetrated desiccated organic terrain and caused severe damages of biodiversity and air quality, the Greenpeace Russia Fire Programme and the All-Russian Institute of Continuous Education in Forestry (ARICEF) developed a manual with recommendations for fire management in peatlands. The first edition of the handbook was published 2015. An updated version was published in 2020:

Southeast Asia: This Manual for the Control of Fire in Peatland and Peatland Forest contains information on (1) fire control, (2) factors which support fire, (3) government policy on fire control, and (4) strategies and techniques for the control of land and forest fires in peatland areas. The information presented in this book, besides including a variety of concepts and practical measures for the prevention and suppression of fire already written/presented by others, also contains ideas and recent field experience of the writers in the handling of land and forest fires in peatland areas of Kalimantan and Sumatra.

Proceedings of Thematic Workshops
Workshop on Prevention and Control of Fire in Peatlands (Forestry Training Unit, Kepong, Kuala Lumpur, 19-21 March 2002)

Fire in the Wetlands / Peatlands of Sumatra: Problems and Solutions
Results of a multi-stakeholder workshop held in Palembang, South Sumatra, 10-11 December 2003. The volume (edited by Unna Chokkalingam, CIFOR) provides different stakeholder perspectives on the problems and solutions of fire in the wetlands of Sumatra. The papers are published in Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia). An English Summary is provided in part 1:

Publications of the EU-Indonesia Forest Fire Prevention and Control Project (FFPCP), Sumatra (1995-2001)

Integrated Forest Fire Management (IFFM) Project, East Kalimantan, Indonesia
The IFFM project was a technical cooperation project between the governments of Indonesia and Germany, supported by the Germany Agency for Technical cooperation (Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Technische Zusammenarbeit – GTZ) and implemented in the Indonesian Province of East Kalimantan between 1994 and 2003. IFFM aimed at reducing wildfires and non-sustainable burning practices in natural ecosystems (peatlands, forest) and land-use systems. More information on IFFM and other related projects:

South Sumatra Forest Fire Management Project, Indonesia
In 1995 the Government of Indonesia and the European Union started the Forest Fire Prevention and Control Project in South Sumatra (FFPCP). This project was part of the larger European Union’s Indonesian Forestry Program. The FFPCP was implemented from 1995 until 2001. As a follow-up to the FFPCP, the South Sumatra Forest Fire Management Project (SSFFMP) started in January 2003 and lasted until 2007. The new SSFFMP project is mainly set in a provincial context and in accordance with the Financing Agreement to work with stakeholders in South Sumatra Province and selected priority districts. The fire problem zones include peat-swamp forest biomes and other wetlands. After the termination of the project the website migrated to GFMC:

Project FireFight South East Asia

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