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Greater Mekong Subregion Biodiversity Conservation Corridors Initiative

Regional economic corridors are expected to play a crucial role in delivering the development agenda in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). But there is concern that increasing development activities in the economic corridors may adversely affect critical ecosystems and high value biodiversity areas resulting in fragmentation of natural landscapes.

This would undermine the functioning and performance of the region's ecosystems, thereby threatening long-term socio-economic development and environmental security of the Subregion.

The proposed GMS biodiversity conservation corridor initiative is to support the broad-based agenda of sustainable development identified by the GMS countries.