Please join the Department of Forestry and Wildlife Conservation Society for the opening of the photography exhibition 'AN EYE IN THE FOREST: The fragile existence of Lao wildlife'
Tuesday 25 November 2008, 6.30pm at T'Shop Lai Gallery
Vat Inpeng St, Vientiane
The Department of Forestry and the Wildlife Conservation Society are working together with communities to manage and protect wildlife in the Nam Kading National Protected Area, Bolikhamxay Province and in the Nam Et-Phou Louey National Protected Area in Houaphan, and Luang Prabang Provinces. With support from the Theun Hinboun Power Company this exhibition is being shown around the country and in schools to draw attention to the wildlife that still survive in Lao PDR and the problems of illegal hunting and trade and the urgency of stopping the unsustainable hunting and illegal trade that threatens the nation's biodiversity.