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"Balancing Environment and Growth" How WWF is changing to deal with threats posed

"Balancing Environment and Growth" How WWF is changing to deal with threats posed to biodiversity from growth and development (particularly in agriculture in Vietnam and the Greater Mekong Sub-region ). Presentation by WWF Representative, Eric Coull

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"Balancing Environment and Growth" How WWF is changing to deal with threats posed

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  1. "Balancing Environment and Growth" How WWF is changing to deal with threats posed to biodiversity from growth and development (particularly in agriculture in Vietnam and the Greater Mekong Sub-region) Presentation by WWF Representative, Eric Coull for IPC – WWF -NCIEC Seminar - 31st October 2005, Hanoi, Vietnam

  2. OUTLINE • WWF - Traditional View • WWF - Wider Approach to Biodiversity Loss • WWF - Local to Global Conservation Programme • WWF - Greater Mekong Programme

  3. 1992: • Discovery of Saola in Vu Quang Nature Reserve, Vietnam

  4. 1994: • Discovery of giant muntjac

  5. 1996: • Discovery of Edwards’ pheasant

  6. 1999: Javan Rhino first photos on camera trap at Cat Tien National Park Vietnam

  7. More Traditional Policy Work • 2003: Supported development of Management Strategy for Protected Areas in Vietnam – MASPAS • 1995: • National Biodiversity Action Plan approved – with WWF’s support

  8. THE CHANGING GLOBAL CONTEXT WWF WORKS IN…

  9. CHALLENGES:

  10. Heart of BorneoIndonesia, Malaysia and Brunei

  11. Heart of Borneo

  12. Agricultural Trade in Vietnam Vietnam’s recent economic growth has been supported largely through trade, Much of this trade is in the Agricultural sector

  13. Agricultural Trade in Vietnamand the Greater Mekong Subregion The delicate ecosystems of the Greater Mekong Region including Vietnam hold resources of especially high national and global value These resources are under increasing threat from Habitat loss and unsustainable practices and some of this is as a result of the drive for more Agricultural Trade

  14. Threats or Drivers of Biodiversity LossIn the Greater Mekong Sub-region • Voracious trade in wildlife • Unsustainable natural resource management • Poorly-planned infrastructure development • Agriculture

  15. WWFRecent Policy Projects in Vietnam “Trade, Environment and Poverty” “From Trade Negotiations to Global Adjustment” New Project on “The sustainable production of cocoa in Vietnam”

  16. Links to WWF’s Macroeconomics For Sustainable Development ProgrammeOffice in US “Trade Environment and Poverty project” “From Trade Negotiations to Global Adjustment” Project, (a collaborative effort between the IPC and the WWF's Macroeconomics for Sustainable Development Program Office (MPO) in partnership with the Dutch Directorate General for Development Cooperation (DGIS), the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) and the World Bank.

  17. This seminar “Sustainable production of cocoa in Vietnam” As part of this Seminar we hope to benefit this project by bringing together the environmental and social considerations of Vietnamese stakeholders in cocoa and experts on international agricultural trade.

  18. WWF Restructuring WWF Indochina will become WWF Greater Mekong Programme on 1st November 2005 Incorporating WWF Indochina – Cambodia , Lao PDR and Vietnam as well as WWF Thailand and the upper Mekong Basin More aligned to the Asian Development Bank’s Greater Mekong Sub-region.

  19. The WWF Greater Mekong Programme China Myanmar Vietnam < < < < < < < < < Lao PDR < < < < < < < < < Thailand < Cambodia < < < < < < < < < / / / / / / / / /

  20. WWF GREATER MEKONG VISION We envision a future whereby the function of natural ecosystems, on which the quality of life depends, isensured by people whose daily actions support biodiversity conservation and sustainable use of renewable natural resources in the Greater Mekong region.

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