STRENGTHEN THE COMMUNITY OF PANG HOK VILLAGE ON WILDLIFE CONSERVATION

Introduction

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  It does not only compromise the efforts and financial resources devoted into biodiversity conservation, but also threaten hygiene, public health, sustainable livelihoods fair job opportunities, and can even cause other types of crimes and conflicts. Besides wildlife species, community members are the most vulnerable victims to these threats from wildlife trafficking yet are also the most powerful to end perpetration of these threats.
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  Pang Hok village is one of the 22 villages located inside the Namghai-Namboun-Namlan national protected forest. Currently, hunting in the Namghai-Namboun-Namlan national protected forest has been seen regularly. Local villagers hunted wildlife for food and sell to the local market to generate family income. Sometimes, rare animals will also be sold to the traders who will cross the border to China.
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  Therefore, a local NGO Lao Biodiversity Association implemented a project to raise local villagers’ awareness of wildlife conservation and to improve the community’s livelihood to protect wildlife species and biodiversity in this area. This project helped Pang Hok village to establish 1404.33 ha of Village Conservation Forest(VCF), which covers 2.56% of the Namghai-Namboun-Hamian national protected forest and 1468.71 ha of Village.