Firelogue | Environment / Ecology Working Group Webinar:
"Fuel Management for Wildfire Risk Reduction and Natural Conservation"

The webinar featured presentations from four speakers, providing a broad territorial and sectoral perspective on the topic and aiming to gain insights into how we can synergistically address wildfire risk reduction and nature conservation challenges. Sebastian Kirppu from Protect the Forest in Sweden commenced with a case example from Northern Europe, illustrating how wildfire risk management and nature conservation are interconnected. Following him, Antonio López from the Spanish Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge delved into the topic of wildfires in Natura 2000 sites. Next, Roman Berčák from the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague has discussed the challenges of multi-risk forest management in the context of nature conservation and wildfires, using the case of the Saxonian and Czech fires of 2022. Concluding the presentations, Adrián Tišťan offered a vision from DG Environment in the European Commission. The webinar was closed with a panel discussion among the speakers and the opportunity for questions by the public. The webinar was moderated jointly by Alexander Held from the European Forest Institute and Julia Haas from Forest Europe.

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