Our Solutions
WWF Laos team members use GIS technology in the country's south.
WWF Laos Country Program
We are building on our achievements to implement a strategy that focuses on sustainable biodiversity and natural resource management – working to gain a long-term economic return for all Lao people, while conserving the biodiversity that makes this part of the world so special.
Our Office
We have been working in Lao PDR since the late 1980s in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. Our country programme office was first established in Vientiane 2001. Since then, our small team has grown to over 40 Lao, international and volunteer staff working on over 15 projects countrywide with offices in Vientiane, Champasak and Attapu provinces.
1989 - we conducted our first species survey on the kouprey, an extremely rare forest-dwelling ox.
1997 - we received an operation permit from the Government of Lao PDR to run activities in conjunction with UNDP.
2001 - our first programme office was established in Vientiane.
2008 - WWF Laos Country Programme was granted Representation Office status by the Government of Lao PDR.
In the Field
Our project teams operate in collaboration with local communities and government departments. Project teams are supported by our accounts and administration teams, and our communications team.
Our work in Lao PDR is largely focused within three of WWF's 200 Global Ecoregions: the Mekong River, the Greater Annamites and the Lower Mekong Dry Forest.
Ecoregions are defined as large areas of land or water that share similar or interrelated ecological processes and characteristics, and together represent the most important areas for biodiversity in the world.
The WATER team collect water samples for testing from around Vientiane City.
Green Power: environmental education
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." Herbert Spencer, English philosopher (1820-1903).
The future of our planet depends on each generation’s ability to manage the environment. Nothing has shown this more than climate change and the global fight to combat its effects.
Environmental education is one of the keys changing the way we all relate to nature.
By learning more about how we impact our environment, we can learn how to better manage natural resources and biodiversity so that they can support livelihoods and be enjoyed by generations to come.
Learn how our Green Club and Environmental Guidelines projects are empowering Lao youth and non-government organisations working in Lao PDR to be responsible stewards of the environment.
Environmental education is one of the keys changing the way we all relate to nature.
By learning more about how we impact our environment, we can learn how to better manage natural resources and biodiversity so that they can support livelihoods and be enjoyed by generations to come.
Learn how our Green Club and Environmental Guidelines projects are empowering Lao youth and non-government organisations working in Lao PDR to be responsible stewards of the environment.
Green Club is an environmental education project that equips teachers with the skills to run extracurricular environmental education activities with their students. This shot was taken during a teacher training workshop in Champasak Province, southern Lao PDR.
