List of Figures Figure 1: Rapid Eye satellite imagery used to assess forest cover in 2015 ........................................ 8 Figure 2: The percentage of forest cover by regions 2002-2015 ........................................................ 9 Figure 3: National Protected Areas (NPAs) increased over the time. .............................................. 12 Figure 4: National Biodiversity Conservation in Lao PDR. ............................................................. 12 Figure 5 : Xe Champhone Ramsar Site ............................................................................................. 13 Figure 6:
Beung Kiat Ngong Ramsar Site ........................................................................................ 14 Figure 7: Pressure to biodiversity loss in Lao PDR .......................................................................... 16 List of Tables Table 1 : Forest cover change in Lao PDR from 2010-2015. ............................................................ 10 Table 2: A summary of the implementation status per objective for the seven programs of the 1st NBSAP ............................................................................................................................................. 26 Table 3:
The estimations of the 1stNBSAP degree of implementation ............................................ 31 Table 4: A colored box besides each Aichi target indicates the current status of implementation and the trend change. ............................................................................................................................... 38 xii