Our work in the Lower Mekong Dry Forests Ecoregion

Maximise conservation success

The beauty of ecoregion based conservation is that it can bring together formerly separate projects working within the same area, to work for the same overall goals.


By co-ordinating and communicating through ecoregion action plans, the projects can know what the others are doing, and maximise their collective impacts towards conservation success. This is done by minimising overlaps, eradicating duplications and taking measures upstream that can have maximum downstream benefits.

The overall goals which each project can therefore contribute to lesser or greater degrees of the greater ecoregion goals which are:

• Conservation for development
• Protecting priority species
• Preserving habitats
• Sustaining the conservation effort