The Green Corridor Project
The Green Corridor Project is being implemented by the WWF and the Thua Thien-Hue Forest Protection Department of Vietnam. The Green Corridor contains some of the largest blocks of lowland forest in Vietnam, and provides a contiguous east to west stretch of forest in Vietnam linking lowland coastal forests to the highland forests on the western border with Lao PDR. It traverses an area that stretches from Phong Dien Nature Reserve and Bach Ma National Park, and is adjacent to the Xe Sap BCA in Lao PDR. Many important forested areas in the Green Corridor lie outside formally gazetted protected areas. The biodiversity action plan, which was prepared as an activity of Vietnam's pilot phase Global Environment Facility (GEF) project, assigns these remaining primary forests with the highest priority for protective development due to their important biodiversity. The Green Corridor project area covers approximately 134,000 ha of Central Vietnam, and is comprised of all or parts of three districts: A Luoi, Huong Thuy, and Nam Dong, and all or parts of eleven communes. This project is part of ongoing cooperation between the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) and the WWF Greater Mekong Programme on conservation issues in the Thua Thien Hue Province region.

EO-STEM Project
The objective of the EO STEM Project was to provide support to the government of Vietnam by providing Earth Observation (EO) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technical support to the Green Corridor Project. The goals of the EO-STEM Project were directly linked with those of the Green Corridor Project.

A key output and focus of the EO-STEM Project was the demonstration of EO data and GIS analysis to support biodiversity conservation. The EO-STEM Project completed field cover surveys to produce an updated forest cover map of Thua Thien Hue, and also led the analysis of the landscape to identify areas of high conservation value. Many of the outputs of the project are included in this English website.

Project Partners
The EO-STEM Project was led by Hatfield Consultants (West Vancouver, Canada), with contributions from WWF Greater Mekong, the Forest Protection Department of the government of Vietnam, the Forestry Inventory and Planning Institute of Vietnam, Strata360 (Montreal, Canada) and Aerde (Halifax, Canada). The project was funded by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) under their Earth Observation Application Development Programme; the project scientific authority was Natural Resources Canada.