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Viet Nam, Cambodia and Lao PDR strengthen transboundary collaboration to protect Truong Son Range’s Biodiversity
Decision makers, researchers, and representatives of development agencies and non-government organizations from Viet Nam, Cambodia, and Lao PDR will meet in Thua Thien Hue Province in Vietnam on 22-24 May 2008 to discuss ways to strengthen collaboration among the three countries to protect the Truong Son Range’s biodiversity.
The three-day workshop is being organized by the Viet Nam Environmental Protection Agency (VEPA) under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE), in cooperation with national and international partners, including the European Union-funded ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB).
Along Viet Nam’s border with Laos runs the Truong Son Range known to
the Laotians as Saiphou Louang, and to much of the world as the Annamites.
Truong Son is known to conservation biologists as a region of exceptional
biodiversity in the lower Mekong basin.
Biologists exploring the Truong Son have recorded three previously unrecognized
species of Muntjac or barking deer, one species of pig, one species of
rabbit, and the Saola, the sole member of Pseudoryx, a genus entirely
new to the cattle family. Saolas range through northern Cambodia and adjacent
areas of Thailand, Laos and Viet Nam.
The workshop will provide a forum for the participants to exchange experiences in protecting the Truong Son Range’s biodiversity; assess information on biodiversity conservation in the area; and discuss emerging problems and their resolutions, especially on transboundary matters. MoNRE sees the workshop as an opportunity to strengthen cooperation for conservation among the three countries participating countries.
The workshop will discuss policy and legislation, mountain biodiversity, and agricultural biodiversity and will be capped by a field visit. The results of the workshop will be published to serve as a valuable reference book DoNRE, relevant research institutions, universities, NGOs and other parties involved in the conservation of Truong Son’s biodiversity.
ACB Executive Director Rodrigo U. Fuentes congratulates the VEPA-MoNRE in organizing the workshop. “VEPA’s move is a positive step towards further strengthening transboundary cooperation in conserving our biodiversity within the ASEAN Region. Many countries in our region share common biodiversity resources. To conserve such resources, we need to work together. This is the reason why ACB is fully supportive of Viet Nam’s biodiversity conservation efforts,” Director Fuentes said.
Media contact: Rolly Inciong, Head of Public Affairs, ACB, Tel. (63) 917 867 5351
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