From 19 to 21 September 2018, in Burundi, a regional workshop on the management of wildfires in protected areas was organized for scientists and conservators from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Benin and Burundi.

This activity is part of the partnerships that the Royal Institute of Natural Sciences of Belgium (IRSNB) concluded with the Congolese Institute for the Conservation of Nature (ICCN) in 2007, the National Institute for the Environment and Nature Conservation (INECN); currently the Burundian Office for Environmental Protection (OBPE) in 2010 and the University of Abomey-Calavi (UAC) in Benin in 2013.

This workshop also saw the participation of journalists from Radio-Télévision Nationale du Burundi (RTNB) for one day