- Extreme Wildfire
This workstream aims to increase knowledge of wildfire risk in indigenous forests and preserve and use Mātauranga Māori knowledge related to wildfire in the ngahere.
We aim to enhance decision making and planning to protect indigenous forests from wildfire.
- to work in co-leadership with Māori to progress a kaupapa Māori workplan. Te Ao Māori approaches and knowledge will be built into our indigenous forest and species flammability research.
- a mahi rōpū (working group) named ‘Te Kauahi’ was established to guide/steer Scion researchers investigating and translating Mātauranga Māori to indigenous forest fire risk
- a survey to gather information from forestry and fire personnel with knowledge (present and past) about fires in indigenous forests is underway
- a PhD student is testing the flammability of indigenous forest surface fuels
- we have evaluated historical fire records to identify where fires have occurred in indigenous forests
- a meta-analysis is underway using National Vegetation Survey data to understand forest structure and then translate this into potential fire behaviour.
Explore the Extreme Wildfire Research Programme workstreams:
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