GARDEN ROUTE NEWS - The Garden Route District Municipality (GRDM) along with the Garden Route Environmental Forum (GREF) is planning to establish an annual commemoration event for the 2017 Knysna fires.
“The forum is currently planning to host a seminar on Friday 7 June to review the environmental preparedness of the Southern Cape regarding risks associated with fire and drought,” said the GRDM’s disaster risk reduction and climate change adaption manager, Nina Viljoen.
“Much has happened in terms of regional disaster prevention and management since the widespread destruction caused by the 2017 Knysna and Plettenberg Bay fires, not to mention the 2018 devastation of some 100 000 hectares along the Outeniqua Mountains, Still Bay and Vermaaklikheid, claiming still more lives and causing untold damage to the regional economy.”
The proposed 7 June fire commemoration seminar will look at, among other things, research and strategy development.
• Read more in the Knysna-Plett Herald and online.
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