Management of fire in our forest and rural landscape conference 2025

The theme of this year's Tāngata Matatau conference is 'Rebuilding the connections with a focus on improving the outcomes'.

This conference will provide an independent platform showcasing new and emerging information and challenges at a political level. Topics include:

• sharing international and New Zealand forest fire case studies
• an introduction to the Forest and Agriculture Organisation's Global Forest Fire Management Hub
• forest fire protection challenges
• the role of contractors and volunteer firefighters
• aviation management
• fire services funding.