South Africa receives around 25 million lightning strikes a year, and Piet Retief is the ‘Lightning Capital’ of SA. While
So you have had a fire in your plantation and you need to value the extent of the damage in
A recent investigation undertaken for a forestry client into the occurrence of numerous fires in plantations belonging to the company
Purpose-built forwarders are designed to operate effectively in difficult terrain, so why aren’t they used to suppress fires in wildfire
Another reason to retain forest floor litter Forest floor litter is widely regarded as a fire hazard and is often
Unlike most engine compartment fires in traditional mobile yellow machines (which start due to mechanical failure of a hose or
Working on Fire (WoF) and the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries (DEFF) have launched a support programme to improve
By Jaap Steenkamp, CEO of the SA Forestry Contractors Association The fire season for the 2020 summer rainfall area is
7 June 2020 commemorates the 2017 Knysna wildfire disaster. In many ways, the risk of a repeat thereof in the
In the last ten years, 153 576 hectares of plantation forest have been damaged by fire. This figure would have
Drastic action is required to prevent future destructive wildlfires in the southern Cape, writes Neels de Ronde in his recently
Fire protection associations (FPAs) in KZN are evolving beyond their traditional role of wildfire monitoring and incident management to tackle
Watch in awe as the US Forest Service executes a massive prescribed burn in Utah’s Fishlake National Forest. The fire
Fire services scarcely had time to regroup after the 2017 Knysna fires, when the Garden Route was again plagued by
Use technology to work smart, improve productivity, health and safety, and take the donkey work out of those repetitive, mindless
When green isn’t always good Drought is generally recognised as a prolonged, abnormally dry period when the available water is
Mentorship is a familiar concept in the context of rural development in South Africa. It refers to the process of
Silva Forest Services from Sedgefield, South Africa, together with a number of international fire and rescue organisations, is hosting a
Changes in land and fire management over the past 30 years – plus climate change – are the real causes
Dr Neels de Ronde comments on Garden Route fire article, published in the SA Forestry magazine of November 2018... This
It’s all systems go for Focus on Forestry 2019, being held at the Ingwenyama Resort, near Nelspruit, Mpumalanga, from 10
Losses to timber resources and infrastructure resulting from the 2017 and 2018 fires has dealt a hammer blow to the
Reflections on the Southern Cape and Tsitsikamma wildfire disaster By Theo Stehle ‘Land of smoke and fire’ ... this is
The third annual Agriculture and Forestry (AGFO) Expo, held at the Casterbridge Lifestyle Centre in White River recently, continued to
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