It is stressed that fire is a natural phenomenon which is part and parcel of the savanna ecosystem and any attempt to eliminate burning completely from this ecological zone could be detrimental to animals and their environments. The use of fire in pasture management, farm clearing, pest control, forestry and tree production, soil and water conservation, and wildlife management is described. It is pointed out that most of the burning experiments in African savannas were either aimed at tree production or pasture management. Only a few are sited in wildlife habitats, and these are not comprehensive enough to investigate the effects of time and frequency of burning on the habitats as well as the impact of grazing under different burning treatements. All these factors were taken into consideration while planning the burning and grazing experiment at Kainji Lake National Park in Nigeria. Some results of the experiment are presented. It is recommended that such experiments should be sited in major game reserves, forest reserves, grazing reserves and national parks in African savannas.