FIRE MONITORING
| Forest Protection | Forest Fire Monitoring |
The Protection unit was formed to patrol and monitor forest fire incidents across the project area. Patrolling was done by ground patrol, river patrol and aerial surveillance. In 2017, frequency of patrolling activities has increased to 188 days as compared to previous years. This include 21 frequencies of river patrolling in Sg Segama which cover accumulated distance of about 490km, and 4 aerial surveillances which was carried out in January, February, April and May 2017. Since 2015, no forest fire incident was detected as shown in Figure 1 and Figure 2.
Figure 1: Frequency of patrolling and forest fire incidents within Ulu Segama-Malua SFM area in 2017
Figure 2: Frequency of patrolling and forest fire incidents within Ulu Segama-Malua SFM area since 2015 
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| Boundary checking (Southern Ulu Segama Forest Reserve) and river inspection (Sg Segama at the Northern Ulu Segama Forest Reserve) via aerial survey |
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| River patrolling along Sg. Segama and Sg. Bole | |