What is the Forest Cover of Lao PDR? Understanding forest area figures

• Tiếng Anh
• Tiếng Lào

• Forest classifications
• Forest cover
• Non-timber forest products

• Lao People's Democratic Republic

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Akiko Inoguchi Forestry Officer, FAO Representation in Lao People’s Democratic Republic Akiko.Inoguchi@fao.org

Soukanh Bounthapandid Deputy Head of Forest Planning and Inventory Division, Department of Forestry, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and FRA National Correspondent soukanh09@gmail.com

The leaflet was developed under the project “Building global capacity to increase transparency in the forest sector (CBIT-Forest)” funded by the Capacity Building Initiative for Transparency (CBIT) trust fund of the Global Environment Facility (GEF).