Here you will access fire related information portals from
around the world
Bushfire -
Wikipedia
FAO (Food
and Agriculture Organisation - United Nations) Fire Management
- FAO brings countries together to discuss technical and policy
issues related to medium- to long-term fire management plans. FAO
collaborates with other organizations and bodies within and outside
the United Nations system.
Global Fire
Monitoring Centre (GFMC) - The GFMC provides a global portal
for wildland fire documentation, information and monitoring and is
publicly accessible through the Internet. The regularly updated
national to global wildland fire products of the GFMC are generated
by a worldwide network of cooperating institutions. The online and
offline products include:
- Early warning of fire danger and near-real time monitoring of
fire events
- Interpretation, synthesis and archive of global fire
information
- Support of local, national and international entities to
develop long-term strategies or policies for wildland fire
management, including community-based fire management approaches
and advanced wildland fire management training for decision
makers
- Serve as advisory body to the UN system through the
coordination of the UN-ISDR Wildland Fire Advisory Group and the
ISDR Global Wildland Fire Network
- Emergency hotline and liaison capabilities for providing
assistance for rapid assessment and decision support in response to
wildland fire emergencies under cooperative agreements with
UN-OCHA, Emergency Services Branch and the WSSD Environmental
Emergencies Partnership .
The Nature
Conservancy - Global Fire Initiative - The Nature Conservancy's
work with fire takes many forms. In the United States the
Conservancy has active prescribed burning programs in more than 40
states where we safely conduct ecological burns on approximately
100,000 acres each year. They assist with fire management on
hundreds of thousands of acres of partner lands. Staff and
volunteers follow National Wildfire Coordinating Group standards.
In 2004, The Nature Conservancy became the only non-governmental
organization to have direct access to the U.S. Incident
Qualifications and Certification System (IQCS).
North
Australian Fire Information (NAFI ) - Tropical Savanas CRC
- Fire hotspots in Northern Australia
Sentinel
(Geoscience Australia) - A national bushfire monitoring system
that provides timely information about hotspots to emergency
service managers across Australia. The mapping system allows users
to identify fire locations with a potential risk to communities and
property.