Wildfire07 Sevilla
• The increase of the temperature of the planet will produce major water stress and changes in the presence and density of arboreal species, according to a report of the FAO.
• This information will be approached in Wildire07, which will have place from May 13 to May 17 at the Conference and Exhibition Centre of Seville.
• The meeting will work in an international strategy to face this ecological, social and economic problem.

The aim of Wildfire07 is to provide a global forum to agents, politicians, investigators and professionals of the whole world to analyze the topics in prevention and control of forest fires
 
- Climatic change and global warming will increase the risk of forest fires, according to information from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The increase of the temperature of the planet will produce different consequences on the forests, like meteorological adverse phenomenon that can cause the loss of trees and increase the risk of fires.

The climate changes will provoke variations in the arboreal species, in the composition of the forests, in the pollination of the plants, etc., everything which will reverberate also in the forest fires, as United Nations has said.

Though more than 90 per cent of the fires are caused by the men, the increase of temperatures and the modification of the winds due to the climatic change can manage to reverberate both in the frequency of the fires and in the dimension that them can reach.

Besides these direct effects, experts indicate that the floods and the storms caused by the Climatic Change can also modify the water currents, on which the trees depend, damaging, by this way, the health of the forests.

United Nations has encouraged the international community to contemplate measurements capable of helping the forests to confront and to get adapted to the Climatic Change. One of the first reactions to this call is Wildfire07, an international summit about forest fires, where one of the main issues to discuss will be the relationship between Climatic Changes and forest fires.

Wildfire07, which will be celebrated from May 13 to May 17 in the Conference and Exhibition Centre of Seville, is an international summit that will assemble in Seville more than 1.000 governmental, technical and expert representatives from all over the world.

This is the first time that this event is held in Spain and in a European country, as the previous ones took place in Boston (USA, 1989), Vancouver (Canada, 1997) and Sydney (Australia, 2003).

The aim of Wildfire07 is to provide a global forum to agents, politicians, investigators and professionals of the whole world to analyze the topics in prevention and control of forest fires, which affect people, resources and ecosystems in all the regions of the world, in order to be use the conclusions at an international strategy to approach this problematic.

Besides, the summit tries to strengthen the work of the Regional Nets of Forest Fires as an instrument to reach this aim, and to create a space to show innovations, new technologies, products and methods for the prevention and control of the forest fires.

Between the topics that will be approached in the Conference stand out the Climatic Change and the forest fires, the impact of the fires, ecology of the fire and cultural landscapes, prevention and participation of the society and efficiency in the defence against forest fires, among others.

Wildfire07 was born at the end of the 80, with the purpose of assembling experts in the defence against forest fires. From the first one of these conferences, they have tried to get a better control of the forest fires and to reduce the damages that they produce. In the former summit celebrated in Sydney on October 8, 2003, Spanish representatives offered to celebrate Wildfire in Andalusia, an initiative that was approved by unanimity.

Spain, Andalusia and Seville have been chosen this time to receive an international summit on the struggle against forest fires in recognition to the labour made to manage this problem that affects us all.
Information: http://www.wildfire07.es
Registration: http://www.wildfire07.es/html/in/inscrip-1_in.html
Gabinete de prensa: Olga Benítez (954 62 27 27 - 655 88 95 02)