"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

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 Park Vietnam

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: Global Trade Global Trade Agriculture

Heart of Borneo Indonesia, 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 Vietnam and 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 Loss In the Greater Mekong Sub-region Voracious trade in wildlife Unsustainable natural resource management Poorly-planned infrastructure development Agriculture

WWF Recent 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 1 st 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.

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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.