| Abstract: | The basic principles in protection of forests from fire are concerned with: a. precaution b. care and diligence c. negligence and contributory negligence all of which are closely inter-related and determine a person's conduct in particular circumstances, antecedent, during and subsequent to the event. Statutory enactments regulate our actions in all these matters. The direct and indirect benefits of forests are indispensable to life and therefore truly national; it consequently concerns the State, or the people, that the asset in our forests or plantations should be adequately protected. This being so, and to this end, the Government has stepped in to assist us by means of provisions in soil conservation schemes for clearing of firebelts on common boundaries of properties, and also by the establishment of fire protection areas administered by fire protection committees, who can obtain financial assistance by way of grants out of public funds. |
