Lesoma community fire team

2026-09-022026-09-12

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September 2026
2 SeptDaily News Botswana
… Ms Gladys Moses, chairperson of the Lesoma community fire team, joined the local fire control efforts in 2013, later adopting the innovative Savanna Fire Management framework introduced five years ago. …
Prescribed fire burning vital for conservation

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Prescribed fire burning reduces wildfires, generates carbon credits

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Prescribed early fire burning, introduced to Pandamatenga and Lesoma in 2021 through partnership with Australian company MAKI Planet Systems and the Department of Forestry and Range Resources, has reduced accumulated vegetation and prevented high-emission wildfires while extracting 45,000 tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere and generating certified carbon credits. The system is projected to net the Chobe community roughly US$300,000 (approximately P4 million) per year.

2 September 2026 · Daily News Botswana →

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Prescribed fire burning reduces wildfires, generates carbon credits
Prescribed early fire burning, introduced to Pandamatenga and Lesoma in 2021 through partnership with Australian company MAKI Planet Systems and the Department of Forestry and Range Resources, has reduced accumulated vegetation and prevented high-emission wildfires while extracting 45,000 tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere and generating certified carbon credits. The system is projected to net the Chobe community roughly US$300,000 (approximately P4 million) per year.
2 September 2026 · Daily News Botswana →