WWF Laos Country Program is part of the WWF Greater Mekong Programme, which works on environmental issues and development challenges across Lao PDR, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam.
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WWF Conservation Projects in Laos
Support to Food Security and Aquatic Biodiversity
Laos is a culturally diverse country globally renowned for its unique biodiversity and natural resources. The Mekong River carves a path down its leng...
WWF Youth Volunteer Programme
From 2008 to 2010, the WWF Greater Mekong Programme will aim to achieve 2 “big wins” for conservation which will require both sustained effort and tar...
Improving Forest Allocation and Management Processes
The Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) is a tropical and subtropical country situated in South East Asia. It is rich in natural resources, on ...
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Tigers in the Greater Mekong
The forests of the Greater Mekong region represent the largest combined tiger habitat on our planet. Covering 540,000km2, or roughly the size of France, these forest habitats are priority areas for tiger conservation efforts. Yet it is estimated that as few as 350 Indochinese tigers prowl the forests of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, down from around 1,200 during the last Year of the Tiger in 1998.
Tigers on the Brink launch: facing up to the challenges in the Greater Mekong
Tiger numbers have fallen by more than 70 percent in slightly more than a decade in the Greater Mekong, with the region’s five countries containing only 350 tigers, according to a new WWF report.
Disappearing Greater Mekong tigers underscore global threats
Tiger numbers have fallen by more than 70 percent in slightly more than a decade in the Greater Mekong, with the region’s five countries containing only 350 tigers, according to a new WWF report.
Disappearing Greater Mekong tigers underscore global threats
Tiger numbers have fallen by more than 70 percent in slightly more than a decade in the Greater Mekong, with the region’s five countries containing only 350 tigers, according to a new WWF report.
Forests fundamental to effective climate deal
The world’s ability to control climate change could be crippled if global leaders do not support clear and effective targets to arrest deforestation at climate talks in Copenhagen in December, WWF said at the conclusion of a key global foresty summit.
The Greater Mekong & Climate Change Report
The Greater Mekong region is already strongly affected by climate change and a lack of immediate action will come at great cost to the region, states a new WWF report released during the UN climate change talks in Bangkok.
First rattan association of Cambodia, a step to sustainable rattan industry
Phnom Penh, Cambodia – Eleven rattan small and medium enterprise owners and other community rattan processors from Phnom Penh and provinces meet on September 28th to officially form Cambodia’s first rattan association. The agenda will focus on election of a management committee and discussion over conditions and roles of current and future memberships.
Close Encounters: new species discoveries in the Greater Mekong
New species discovered in the Greater Mekong at risk of extinction due to climate change.
Greater Mekong Climate Change Adaptation agreement: a world’s first in the making…
Asia’s first climate change adaptation agreement was the focus of a recent meeting held in Bangkok, convened on July 22 by WWF Greater Mekong Programme, the United Nations Environment Programme and the Swedish Environmental Secretariat for Asia.
Assessing climate change vulnerability in the Greater Mekong Region
More than 90 specialists and researchers from WWF, relevant NGO’s, government agencies and universities gathered in Bangkok, Thailand, on July 20-21, to assess the climate change vulnerability of six high priority biodiversity conservation areas: the Tonle Sap lake in Cambodia, the Siphandone stretch of the Mekong River in Laos, the Central Annamites Mountains in Vietnam, the Eastern Plains Dry Forests in Cambodia, the Western Forest Complex in Thailand and the Mekong Delta in Vietnam.
