Institute of Development Studies

This time, we share a recording from an online event that discussed the myth that fire is the enemy.

The event is introduced and co-chaired by Amber Hough, principal investigator of the REPAIR Project and research fellow at the Institute of Development Studies.

The other co-chair was Bat Maria Vorontsova, research leader in the Department of Accelerated Taxonomy at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Our speakers were Elliot Convery Fisher, research fellow in the Socioecology of Fire Management at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, who's a conservation social scientist whose work is currently focused on shaping fire management across protected areas in Madagascar, and Kevin Kerkmann, professor in the School of Agriculture and Science at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, who studies many aspects of grassland ecology and management, including research on grazing, fire, and restoration.