National and Regional Meetings, Workshops and Activities

Regional South Asia

• Foundation Meeting of the Regional South Asia Wildland Fire Network (2-3 April 2007, Kathmandu, Nepal)

Nepal

• 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.
  
   
• Forest Fires in India - Workshop Proceedings;  (19-22 February 2007, Madurai, India)

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