Sustainable forest management (SFM) plays a critical role in preserving biodiversity by maintaining a variety of habitats and ecological processes, and this becomes so true in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS), where large forest ecosystems are shared cross borders, providing both services for rapid social-economic development and shades to diverse range of wildlife species, but also confronted with fragmentation, degradation and loss.
Aligning with APFNet's efforts on facilitating communication and cooperation, and building on regional need assessments, APFNet Transboundary Wildlife Conservation Initiative (@WILD) targets GMS wildlife conservation and related departments and officials, at both national and local levels, and facilitates knowledge exchanges, policy discussions and synergies, and on-the-ground cooperation on forest-based wildlife conservation. During the course, communities are expected to get engaged and benefited.
Wildlife conservation and habitat management
Forest restoration and management
Livelihood and community development
Meetings and training events
Research, studies and assessments
Programs/projects
@Wild participants convened in 2018 and 2019, when national-level data sharing and possible ground-level activities were discussed and identified. Building on these, a regional Wildlife Conservation Training Workshop was organized in 2018, and a study project implemented during 2020-2021 with APFNet funding, to assess the state of forests and key wildlife species and investigate the impact of human activities on the forest ecosystem in Choam Ksant in northern Cambodia that shares borders with Thailand and Lao.
