Forest Fires, A Burning Issue pptx

[...]... the natural hardwood forests, pine forests, bamboo forests and forest plantations during summer months Lao PDR An estimated 90% of forest fires in Lao PDR originate from slash-and-burn cultivation practices and traditional hunting methods No reliable statistics are available Malaysia Forest fires in Malaysia have been reported especially in pine plantations in the 1970s and in Acacia mangium plantations... hand panel of the schematic diagram), the trade winds relax in the central and western Pacific Warm water and air currents no longer flow westwards with the same strength, and the warmest waters move eastward, away from Southeast Asia and towards the central Pacific Rainfall follows the warm waters, with associated flooding in Peru and drought in Indonesia and Australia (Pacific Marine Environmental... Southeastern Sarawak, bordering Indonesia Sarawak’s forest fire management is distributed among three main agencies: the Sarawak Forestry Department (forest fire protection measures and rehabilitation of burned areas); the Sarawak Natural Resources and Environmental Board (implementation of regulation under the Natural Resources and Environ- ment Ordinance); and the Fire and Rescue Department of Malaysia (fire... 19.93 million hect ares of forest cover 60.7% of Malaysia’s total land area, with the forested area higher in Sabah and Sarawak than in Peninsular Malaysia Of the total, 18 million hectares are classified as Inland Dipterocarp Forests, commonly referred to as evergreen rainforests The generally high temperature and moist conditions in the natural forests that give rise to a high rate of litter decomposition,... process also includes SPECIAL REPORTS Location Area (Hectares) Kelantan 605 Selangor Perak Johor Kedah Terangganu 255 100 56 41 Pahang Sabah Sarawak Total 1,315 427 47,500 14,200 64,499 Probable Causes Snapped electrical transmission lines and land cleaning by farmers Land clearing by farmers and disposed cigarettes Hunting and other unknown causes Campers and other unknown causes Land clearing by farmers... implementing RHAP activities The ASEAN Secretariat and the SRFA members: Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore also use video conferencing facilities to interact among themselves, particularly in emergency situations needing immediate action Recognizing the need to further enhance regional cooperation on transboundary haze, ASEAN has developed an ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution... areas were burnt in the islands of Sumatra, Kalimantan, Irian Jaya, and Java The areas in which fires are common include the habitats of such critically endangered species as the Javan and Sumatran rhinoceroses and the Sumatran tiger (WWF 1997) , According to the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, the fires in Indonesia are now threatening at least 19 protected areas, all internationally important,... and training programs Ahmad Zainal Mat Isa is the Deputy Director of the Forest Plantation Unit, Forestry Department, Malaysia References A. H Zakri and A. Latiff, 1996 Abundance of Tropical Biodiversity and Consequences of Forest Fire Paper presented at the Transboundary Pollution and the Sustainability of Tropical Forests: Towards Wise Forest Fire Management, Kuala Lumpur, 2- 4 December 1996 AIFM,... Symp ASEAN Trop.For.Mgmt Thai, S.K 1998 Malaysia Country Report presented at the Regional Workshop On Forest Fire Management – Collaboration in ASEAN, 29-31 March 2001, Chiangmai, Thailand ASEAN BIODIVERSITY 35 SPECIAL REPORTS By SAHLEE BUGNA and GIACOMO RAMBALDI reptile species Since Thailand shares its flora and fauna with many of its neighbors, the number of endemics is not as high as in Malaysia or...Photos courtesy of ASEAN Secretariat and National Interagency Fire Center, Bureau of Land Management, Idaho, USA SPECIAL REPORTS ASEAN’s Response Strategy in Addressing Transboundary Haze Pollution By ADELINA KAMAL T he land and forest fires that hit the ASEAN region in 19971998 have been so severe that the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) labeled them as among the most damaging in recorded . The protected areas include the 705,000 acre Serra da Cotia National Park in Roraima state, as well as four national forests in the states of Amazonas, Para and Acre and two reserves also in Roraima. The. the: Regional Haze Action Plan (RHAP) Co-ordination & Support Unit (CSU) ASEAN Secretariat, 7 0A, Jl. Sisingamangaraja Jakarta 12110, Indonesia Tel. 62-21-7262991 Fax 62-21-7230985 Email: haze@aseansec.org www.aseansec.org www.haze-online.or.id Asean. include a wide range and variety of habitats including lowland humid forests, mangroves, savanna grasslands, swamp forests, montane forests and alpine meadows. These habitats support a rich flora and