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Acknowledgements
We would like to express our profound gratitude to individuals and institutions for
their assistance in the course of undertaking this research. We wish to thank the
representatives of the Government of Vietnam, the Provincial Peoples Committee
(PPC) of Thua Thien Hue province, Peoples Committee of Phong Dien district
and Phong My commune for their interest in our work.
Our appreciations are addressed to Tran Huu Nghi, Jinke van Dam, Tu
Anh, Nguyen Thi Quynh Thu, from Tropenbos International Vietnam, for their
cooperation and for their assistance in organising our surveys.
We were lucky to collaborate with all the MLA participants: Le Hien (Hue
University of Agriculture and Forestry), Ha Thi Mung (Tay Nguyen University),
Vu Van Can, Nguyen Van Luc (FIPI), Nguyen Quy Hanh and Tran Thi Anh
Anh (Department of Foreign Affairs of Thua Thien Hue province), and Ho Thi
Bich Hanh (Hue College of Economics) for their hard work and interest for the
project.
We would like to thank Patrick Rossier (ETSP-Helvetas), Eero Helenius
(Thua Thien Hue Rural Development Programme), and Chris Dickinson (Green
Corridor Project-WWF), for their useful suggestions.
We wish to thank Ueli Mauderli (SDC), Jean Pierre Sorg (ETHZ), for their
useful comments and suggestions during their survey in Khe Tran, Jean-Laurent
Pfund and Allison Ford (CIFOR) for their valuable comments during the redaction
of the report, Michel Arbonnier (CIRAD) for the revision of the plant list, Henning
Pape-Santos, our copy-editor, and Wil de Jong, the coordinator of the project for
his support.
Last but not the least, we would like to thank the villagers from Khe Tran, Son
Qua and Thanh Tan for their cooperation during our different surveys, for their
patience and for all the information they provided to us.
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