The Nakai-Nam Theun National Biodiversity Conservation Area (NBCA) comprises one of the most pristine wildernesses remaining in South-East Asia. Nakai-Nam Theun NBCA covers approximately 3,445 km of the Annamite mountains and the adjacent Nakai Plateau in the provinces of Khammouane and Bolikhamxay.
A series of surveys conducted since 1994 by the co-operative programme of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), the Lao Department of Forestry, an...
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The Nakai-Nam Theun National Biodiversity Conservation Area (NBCA) comprises one of the most pristine wildernesses remaining in South-East Asia. Nakai-Nam Theun NBCA covers approximately 3,445 km of the Annamite mountains and the adjacent Nakai Plateau in the provinces of Khammouane and Bolikhamxay.
A series of surveys conducted since 1994 by the co-operative programme of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), the Lao Department of Forestry, and the World Conservation Union (IUCN) have revealed that the area has an extremely high biodiversity conservation value. Semi-evergreen forest, deciduous dipterocarp forest and stands of pine are all found on the Nakai Plateau and in the Annamite foothills to the east, grading into more exclusively evergreen forests as the land rises towards the Vietnamese border. Higher still, huge areas of montane fagaceous forest cloak the slopes, interspersed with patches of Fokienia hodginsii, a commercially valuable cypress-like conifer. On mountain-tops...
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