"Balancing Environment and Growth" How WWF is changing to deal with threats posed
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"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 - 31 st October 2005, Hanoi, Vietnam
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"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
OUTLINE• WWF - Traditional View
• WWF - Wider Approach to Biodiversity Loss
• WWF - Local to Global Conservation Programme
• WWF - Greater Mekong Programme
• 1992: • Discovery of
Saola in Vu Quang Nature Reserve, Vietnam
• 1994: • Discovery of giant
muntjac
• 1996: • Discovery of
Edwards’ pheasant
• 1999: Javan Rhino first photos on camera
trap at Cat Tien National ParkVietnam
• 2003:
Supported development of Management Strategy for Protected Areas in Vietnam – MASPAS
• 1995: • National Biodiversity
Action Plan approved – with WWF’s support
More Traditional Policy Work
THE CHANGING GLOBAL CONTEXT WWF WORKS IN…
CHALLENGES:
EconomicGrowth
EconomicGrowth
GovernmentPolicies
GovernmentPolicies
InfrastructureDevelopment
InfrastructureDevelopment
PopulationPressure
PopulationPressure
IndustrialDevelopment
IndustrialDevelopment
WildlifeTrade
WildlifeTrade
Hunting/PlantCollection
Hunting/PlantCollection
HabitatLoss
HabitatLoss
Loss of Biodiversity
Loss of Biodiversity
Global
Trade
Global
Trade
AgricultureAgriculture
Heart of BorneoIndonesia, Malaysia and Brunei
Heart of Borneo
Agricultural Trade in Vietnam
Vietnam’s recent economic growth has been supported largely through trade,
Much of this trade is in the Agricultural sector
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
Threats or Drivers of Biodiversity LossIn the Greater Mekong Sub-region
• Voracious trade in wildlife
• Unsustainable natural resource management
• Poorly-planned infrastructure development
• Agriculture
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”
Links to WWF’s Macroeconomics For Sustainable Development
Programme Office 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.
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.
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.
Vietnam
LaoPDR
Thailand
Cambodia
Myanmar
China
The WWF Greater Mekong Programme
WWF GREATER MEKONG VISION
We envision a future whereby the function of natural
ecosystems, on which the quality of life depends, is
ensured by people whose daily actions support
biodiversity conservation and sustainable use of
renewable natural resources in the Greater
Mekong region.
