Threats and Strategies for Global Biodiversity Conservation

Citation:(see inside back cover for author affiliations)Shlisky, A., J. Waugh, P. Gonzalez, M. Gonzalez, M. Manta,H. Santoso, E. Alvarado, A. Ainuddin Nuruddin, D.A.Rodríguez-Trejo, R. Swaty, D. Schmidt, M. Kaufmann, R. Myers,A. Alencar, F. Kearns, D. Johnson, J. Smith, D. Zollner and W.Fulks. 2007. Fire, Ecosystems and People: Threats and Strategiesfor Global Biodiversity Conservation. GFI Technical Report2007-2. The Nature Conservancy. Arlington, VA.Acknowledgements:We would like to thank all 60 of the participants of the2006 Neotropic, Indo-Malay, Australasia, and Nearcticregional expert Global Fire Assessment workshops for theircontributions to this body of work. We would also like to thankKei Sochi of the Colorado chapter of The Nature Conservancyand Casey Cleve and Brent Pedersen of the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley’s Center for Fire Research and Outreachfor their expert GIS assistance. We sincerely appreciate RachelSmith of the University of California, Berkeley, who helpedcollect data and coordinate workshops. We also appreciate thecontributions of the Comision Nacional Forestal (CONAFOR)for allowing the use of information from the Mexico FireProgram Analysis (2003-2004). The development of theGlobal Fire Assessment spatial database and this publicationwould not have been possible without their support.Dedication:This publication is dedicated to our colleague Jill Bowling, who,along with six other WWF staff and 17 others, perished in ahelicopter accident in Nepal in September 2006. Jill was oneof the founders of the Global Fire Partnership. While there wereothers on the team who had more experience in fire science andmanagement, it was Jill’s wisdom, experience, and big-picturethinking that framed all of our discussions and focused us onthe linkages among fire, conservation and human welfare.Photos:Front Cover: © Penny Tweedie/CORBISTop Back Cover: © Ronald MyersBottom Left Back Cover: © Mark GodfreyBottom Right Back Cover: © Dante Arturo Rodriguez-TrejoGlobal Fire PartnershipThe Nature Conservancy, University of California,Berkeley’s Center for Fire Research and Outreach,IUCN and WWF have pledged to work together andwith partners to address the causes and ecologicaland social consequences of altered fire regimesaround the world. The partners collected much ofthe data used in this assessment at a preliminaryexperts workshop in May 2004 and three subsequentworkshops in 2006.© 1986 Panda Symbol WWF® “WWF” is a WWF Registered TrademarkFor more information, please contact:The Nature ConservancyGlobal Fire Initiative13093 Henry Beadel DriveTallahassee, FL 32312U.S.A.(850) 668-0827fire@tnc.orgTo download this document, graphics and subsequentversions, go to http://nature.org/initiatives/fire/science.The assessment is ongoing. Experts are invited tocontribute to the study using an online, interactivetool. E-mail fire@tnc.org to request access.For more information on The Nature Conservancy’sGlobal Fire Initiative, see http://nature.org/fire.© 2007 The Nature Conservancy