Lao PDR
Lao PDR is a landlocked country in Southeast Asia, sharing its borders with Myanmar, Cambodia, China, Thailand, and Viet Nam. Eighty percent of the country mountainous and the remaining 20% is low lying plains along the Mekong River.
With a population of only 8 million, Lao PDR鈥檚 ecosystems and relatively intact compared with other Asian nations. Almost 60% of the country is forest covered, which the government aims to reach 70% by 2035. Twenty-five National Protected Areas, including six National Parks, cover 17% of the country and the government plans to nominate Hin Nam No National Park as Lao PDR鈥檚 first natural WHS in 2023.
As part of its ambition to become the Battery of Asia, the government has invested heavily in hydropower, mostly through foreign-finance build-own-transfer schemes. Between 1990 and 2020, GDP growth averaged almost 7%/year, moving the country close to middle-income status. But since 2020, covid, which hit the tourist sector particularly badly, and debt-distress have severely reduced GDP growth. The government is seeking to diversify the economy with a greater focus on sustainable natural resource management, including tourism and forestry.
香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 started working in Lao PDR in 1988 and opened an office in 1992. Lao PDR has been a State member 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 since 1969.
Photo: A wetland area in Lao PDR 漏 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 Lao PDR
Photo: Hills in Konglor 漏 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 Lao PDR
Photo: Caves in Konglor 漏 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 Lao PDR
Currently, 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 Lao PDR has one state member, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and no NGO members.
香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 works mainly in two programmatic areas: Water & Wetlands and Species & Protected Areas. Projects include gibbon conservation in Phou Hin Poun Wildlife Sanctuary, Green Listing of Hun Nam No and Nakai-Nam Theun National Parks, peatlands conservation, Ramsar support in Beung Kiat Ngong, and starting in 2023 water and environmental security in the Ma and Neun/Ca transboundary river basins. 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 also runs the Critical Ecology Partnership Fund (CEPF) and the Lao Ecology small grant making programs.
All of 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播鈥檚 projects in Lao PDR are implemented in collaboration with government, particularly the Department of Forestry of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and the Department of Water Resources of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.