National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan 2016-2025 (Lao People’s Democratic Republic)

This National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP) covers the period from 2016 to 2025. The planning period coincides with the current 10-year strategic planning period of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), 2011 to 2020. The NBSAP 2016-2025 consists of three parts. Part I is an assessment of the current situation; Part II is the description of the Strategy and Part III is the National Action Plan. Preparation of the updated NBSAP has followed guidance provided by the CBD Secretariat and has been supported by working groups comprised of representatives from government agencies, non-governmental organizations and businesses. The NBSAP envisions that the people of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic value their biodiversity resources in terms of the immediate and long-term environmental, economic and poverty alleviating benefits these resources provide, not only to themselves, but to the global community. These benefits are sustained through protection against abuse, by wise use and by ensuring that the benefits are shared equitably. The vision is guided by most of the principles originally set in NBSAP I with appropriate amendments to support the values espoused by the CBD Strategic Plan for 2011-20.