Agência para a Gestão Integrada de Fogos Rurais, I.P.
Data de publicação: 29/11/2023
Sumário: Rotary Foundation’s Forest Fire Management Vocational Training Team (VTT) between Portugal’s Ponta Delgada, S. Miguel (Açores) (District 1960) and Australia’s Rotary Club of Ballarat South (District 9780) was designed to build forest fire management capacity and capability within Portugal.
Funding was made available through a Rotary Foundation Global Grant for community economic development (GG2099432) to cover the cost of experts from Australia to travel to Portugal, and for Portuguese people to travel to Australia, for prescribed burning experience in fuel and biodiversity management of Western Australia southern forests.
The Vocational Training covers prescribed burning for bushfire mitigation; bushfire preparedness and predictive services; bushfire incident management; and guidance in global collaborative bushfire research, across multiple organizations and disciplines within Portugal.
This report shows the second part of the program that consisted in a visit with portuguese technicians from some of the entities part of the Rural Fires Integrated Management System (Sistema de Gestão Integrada de Fogos Rurais - SGIFR).