Wildfires – fires that occur in the late dry season, burning at high intensity across large areas – are a major threat to biodiversity in the Gulf Bioregions. This project aims to prevent late-dry season wildfires by re-establishing a regime of ecologically friendly planned burns of savanna areas in the early dry season, thereby creating a mosaic of vegetation of different age-classes across the landscape and reducing the frequency and extent of late dry season wildfires in the landscape.

Co-benefits include:
1) Local indigenous employment
2) Reducing the negative impact of wildfires
3) Increasing the extent of “old growth” vegetation and dispersing it more evenly across the landscape