Stop the Harmful Forms of Prescribed Burning!

The open letter to Dr. Neels de Ronde and  Dr. Johann Goldammer in relation to the “Regional Advanced Integrated Fire Management Course in the Optimum Use of Prescribed Fire and Regional Fire Prevention Levels”, which is planned to be held on 16-20 Sep 2019, Sabie, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. Download letter as    Docx file Dear Dr. Neels de Ronde and Dr. Johann Goldammer, This open letter was written in the framework of the “Stop the Harmful Forms of Prescribed Burning!” international public campaign, which was started in June 2019 by the community of environmentalists from different countries. The position of the campaign is published in the blog-website of the campaign.  It describes our vision of the entity of prescribed burning problems in the world; the probable catastrophic negative consequences of the harmful forms of prescribed burnings , which can be confidently predicted based on the character of their implementation; the objec...

We launched a blog devoted to the “Stop the Harmful Forms of Prescribed Burning!” international public campaign. This campaign is a unique in the world. It is the first organized civil resistance to the destructive practice of prescribed burning, which is now spreading in many countries of the world and the development of which is financially lobbied by a powerful industry of prescribed burning. The campaign was started in the framework of the Prescribed Burning Watch (PBW) community – the growing international community of independent observers of the negative consequences of prescribed burning practice. The structure of the blog is the following: Pages in the top menu 1. “Position of the campaign” It is the first position of the “Stop the Harmful Forms of Prescribed Burning!” international public campaign, which describes the entity of prescribed burning problem in the world, the catastrophic negative consequences of the harmful forms of prescribed burning (wh...