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The Green Corridor Project

Conserving Thua Thien Hue's Green Heritage
ImageThe Green Corridor is the area between Bach Ma National Park and Phong Dien Nature Reserve in Thua Thien Hue Province in Central Vietnam. Through regional biological assessments the forest area has been identified as one of the highest conservation priorities in Vietnam. It is one of the last remaining lowland wet evergreen forests, and supports populations of threatened species. It also includes some of the longest remaining stretches of Lowland River, within intact forest habitat, in Vietnam.
 
Conserving global conservation targets in a productive landscape
ImageEstablished in June 2004, the Green Corridor project is a four-year project implemented by the WWF Vietnam programme and Forest Protection Department of Thua Thien Hue province, supported by the World Bank - Global Environmental Facility (GEF), with co-funding from the Dutch Development Organization (SNV), the People’s Committee of Thua Thien Hue Province, and WWF. The aim of the project is to strengthen the capacity of local stakeholders and to conserve the landscape of the Green Corridor area.
 
Thua Thien Hue Provincial Biodiversity Plan Approved
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Tuesday, 10 February 2009

ImageA provincial action for Biodiversity Conservation was approved for Thua Thien Hue Province in December 2008. This strategic plan on Forest Biodiversity Conservation will partly help the province to manage and conserve forest biodiversity according to the Vietnam governments in implementing Decision No.79/2007/QD-TTg.

 

The strategic plan looks at biodiversity, food security and biosafety following up the National Action Program on biodiversity until 2010 to fulfill the Cartegena Protocol on biosafety to the Convention on biological diversity. Download

 
The Future for WWF in Hue
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Friday, 16 January 2009
ImageAlthough the Green Corridor project is closing, the challenges of conservation and improvement of local livelihoods still remains, for example, the increasing pressure on wildlife populations through the illegal trade at local and international levels remains high, new pressures from climate change and the problem of local livelihoods on a world that is already facing economic difficulties remains.
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