New support from Fondation Segré

We are very excited to announce that Foundation Segré is one of our new partners. They will be supporting us for a 3-year project, which we start in May 2019!

The support from Fondation Segré will complement our on-going efforts in anti-poaching forest patrols and wildlife monitoring across the protected area, especially in designated ‘Biodiversity Priority Zones’.

The project has one main goal which is:

To prevent illegal poaching on wildlife populations in Nakai-Nam Theun National Protected Area, at least in designated Biodiversity Priority Zones to ensure wildlife populations to thrive

With the following specific objectives:

1. Reduce or remove any instance of illegal poaching (including logging, and hunting) with community anti-poaching patrols and supporting teams
2. Ensure stable or increasing wildlife populations, especially for key threatened species listed on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
3. Assess the impact of anti-poaching patrols on biodiversity abundance to strengthen and/or adapt our strategy if necessary
4. Monitor wildlife populations (including rare and threatened species) trends and distribution over time, and conduct surveys on species for which current occurrence is uncertain
5. Collect data on several species to investigate certain aspects of their ecology (distribution, habitat requirements, activity etc.)

This project is implemented in collaboration with our local partners: Wildlife Conservation Association and Nam Theun 2 Watershed Management and Protection Authority.

We are immensely grateful to Fondation Segré for their trust and for being one of our new partners.

To learn more about their foundation visit their website here.