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Welcome !

BirdLife International in Indochina website covers our activities in Cambodia, Myanmar and Vietnam. You can read about our recent work and the updated news by visting our latest newsletter The Babbler 24&25 (4.4 MB)

Latest news on this site

1. Lenya: Myanmar's Hidden Treasure (in pdf - 80 KB) - November 30, 2006

2. Record Numbers of White-shouldered Ibis found by conservationists in Cambodia (in pdf - 104 KB) - November 13, 2006

3. The Launch of "Important Bird Areas and Potential Ramsar Sites in Asia" (in pdf - 81 KB) - November 2, 2006

Job Opportunities

Consultant for CYS project (Community Awareness Program)

Consultant for CYS project (Land-Use)

Consultant for CYS project (Provincial Planning Process)

Consultant for CYS project (Legal Training)

Birding in Vietnam

A new bird watching page produced with kind support from Japan Fund for Global Environment (JFGE) is now available. Please click here for view the site.

This page is an output of a JFGE-funded project titled Enhancing access to bird watching information in Vietnam in 2005 - 2006.

Special thanks for the kind contribution of Mr. Andrew Tordoff, Mr. Richard Craik and Mr. Nicholas Wilkinson in completing the content of this birding webpage.

Below are details of our latest publications

Myanmar: Investment Opportunities in Biodiversity Conservation

by Andrew W. Tordoff, Jonathan C. Eames, Karin Eberhardt, Michael C. Baltzer, Peter Davidson, Peter Leimgruber, U Uga, U Aung Than, BirdLife International (2005) 124 pp.

Click here to view: page 1 - 62 and page 63 - 124

This document is available from BirdLife International in Indochina. Add.: N6/2+3, Lane 25, Lang Ha Street, Hanoi, Vietnam
Tel: (84 4) 514 8904; Email: birdlife@birdlife.netnam.vn

Sourcebook of Existing and Proposed Protected Areas in Vietnam

Click here to view Sourcebook.

The Sourcebook of Existing and Proposed Protected Areas in Vietnam provides a comprehensive overview of Vietnam's protected areas network. The Sourcebook is aimed at a broad target audience, including protected area planners and practitioners; provincial governmental agencies; research organisations; NGOs and funding agencies.

The Sourcebook provides a guide to the information available on 208 existing and proposed protected areas throughout Vietnam. These include existing and proposed 'Special Use Forests' (national parks, nature reserves and cultural and historical sites) and proposed marine protected areas.

Directories of Important Bird Areas for Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia

In the last two years, BirdLife International in Indochina has published a series of Directories for IBA in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. These publications are available in both English and local languages.

Click here to view IBA Directories

Saving Asia's Threatened Birds: A Guide for Government and civil society

BirdLife's latest publication Saving Asia's threatened birds was launched in December, 2003 at an event held in Tokyo, Japan. It was co-hosted by BirdLife together with the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF), who had given funds towards the publication.

The information in this guide is based on Threatened birds of Asia: The BirdLife International Red Data Book, which was published in 2001 and represented the output of years if careful research into the threatened birds of Asia region.

The online version of this publication will be available in few months.

Threatened Birds of Asia

Click here to view Threatened Birds of Asia

The two-volume publication is a key element of BirdLife International's ongoing "Globally Threatened Species Programme". With input from 140 experts working within the BirdLife International network in Asia and contributions from over 1,000 ornithologists and conservationists, this book contains the first comprehensive individual species accounts with illustrations of each threatened species, over 400 definitive maps of their distribution and location, population numbers and trends, and information on practical conservation solutions.

Important Bird Areas in Asia

Important Bird Areas in Asia, published by BirdLife International in 2004, identifies 2,293 sites, covering 7.6% of the region's total land area, of which 976 (43%) are unprotected and a further 325 (14%) are only partially protected. It took 8 years to complete, involving hundreds of ornithologists, volunteers and government staff in 28 countries and territories across the entire Asia region. It received support from the governments of Japan, Denmark and the Netherlands, as well as the private sector in Japan.