The document sets out a range of actions around issues such as prevention, improved co-ordination, messaging, response and capacity building.
It acknowledges the need to utilise the skills and resources of the land management community, with gamekeepers, farmers, foresters and crofters often working alongside Scottish Fire and Rescue Service in tackling serious blazes.
The document, which can be found, here: https://www.gov.scot/isbn/9781806438983 acknowledges that the Wildlife Management and Muirburn Bill, while reducing the risks to peatlands from wildfire (by limiting the purposes under which muirburn can be carried out on peatlands), may increase wildfire risk due to increased fuel load.
The document also stated that the implementation of the Muirburn licensing scheme had been delayed providing ‘more time to carefully consider how licensing can be implemented in a way which does not adversely affect our ability to prevent and respond to wildfires.’
Action 9 says that the Government intends to implement the licensing scheme in Autumn this year ‘subject to agreement with the incoming government’.
Implementation will be monitored, with evolving science considered as part of the licensing scheme.
Read the document: https://www.gov.scot/isbn/9781806438983
