ABSTRACT
The Biodiversity Conservation Corridors Initiative (BCI) project aims to link up the National Protected Areas (NPA) Tri-Border Forest Biodiversity Conservation Landscape between Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. Through the linkage of these NPAs, the project is working with local communities to conserve habitats for wildlife and their movements, enhance ecological services, such as water supply and flood protection, and improve local livelihoods through sustainable use of natural resources in the broad corridors between them. The work in southern Laos is one of six pilot BCI sites that have been selected in Cambodia, China (Yunnan Province and the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region), Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam of the Greater Mekong Sub-Region (GMS). BCI is part of the GMS Core Environment Programme funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). WWF is the implementing agency for the southern Laos pilot phase, and aims to develop a sustainable-use corridor, roughly 82,600 hectares, linking Dong Hua Sao NPA with Xe Pian and eventually to Dong Ampham in the Tri-Border Forests landscape (GMS EOC, 2008).
