Phou Hin Poun

Where it ranks

The Canopy Global 1000 ranks the world’s land protected areas by conservation value: how irreplaceable the species they hold are, how connected they are to other protected land, and how intact they are, weighted by size. Plant data is being added to the ranking, so both versions are shown side by side. Neither is the final word.

Without plants, Phou Hin Poun ranks 98 of 1,000. With plants it ranks 264. It stays in the top 300 either way, which is why it is here.

Published management assessments

Management-effectiveness ratings published outside Canopy, each on its publisher’s own scale. They are not PACE scores, some are self-assessments, and different methods and years are never converted into one another or ranked together.

GEF METT score as published, unit not stated, 2020: 24, on a 0 to 102 scale; unit: METT score (raw points or percent, not stated by source).

Assessor: Baseline METT assessments carried out for the project's protected areas during preparation (World Bank / Department of Forestry); individual assessors not named. METT score as printed (to two decimals); the document does not say whether it is points or percent. A project baseline, not an evaluation.

Scale: METT score exactly as published in a GEF project report that does not say whether it is raw points or a percentage. Never compare directly with a percentage scale. Source: GEF 10499 Lao Landscapes and Livelihoods CEO Endorsement Request, Core Indicator 1.2; Core Indicator 1.2 table (PDF p. 23), row Phu Hin Phoun NPA, column METT score (Baseline at CEO Endorsement). Retrieved 2026-10-05. Protected area name and national designation match the cohort entity in Khammouane / Bolikhamxay; one row per protected area.

Sources checked for this area:

World Bank: Implementation Status and Results Report, Second Lao Environment and Social Project (P128393), sequence 14. Portfolio-level cumulative METT indicator only; no park-level score published.

UNESCO World Heritage Centre: UNESCO World Heritage Convention: Lao PDR (State Party page). Not an inscribed World Heritage property or component; no IUCN World Heritage Outlook assessment exists.

Global Environment Facility / World Bank: CEO Endorsement Request: Lao PDR Landscapes and Livelihoods Project, GEF ID 10499 (World Bank, GEF-7), portal print 30 November 2020. Row for Phu Hin Phoun NPA read directly; counted.

Retrieved 2026-10-05. A park with no rating here may still have one that was not found or could not be cited from a primary document.

Irrecoverable carbon

1.43 million tonnes of carbon inside the boundary is irrecoverable: if it were lost, it could not be recovered by 2050.

Forest loss, 2001 to 2024

1,984 km² of the area was forest in 2000, 84% of it. 195.2 km² of that forest was lost between 2001 and 2024, 9.8% of the 2000 cover.

Forest means at least 30% tree canopy in 2000. Loss counts any clearing, including fire and natural disturbance, not only deforestation.

Not here yet

Canopy’s PACE management score, its country readiness score (C-RISK) and its weekly satellite feeds cover African protected areas today. They have not been published for this area.

Provenance

Sources

UNEP-WCMC and IUCN (2026), Protected Planet: The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) [June 2026], Cambridge, UK: UNEP-WCMC and IUCN. Available at: www.protectedplanet.net.

Hansen, M. C. et al. (2013), High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change, Science 342: 850-853. Data: Global Forest Change 2000 to 2024, v1.12, University of Maryland, CC BY 4.0.

Noon, M. L. et al. (2022), Mapping the irrecoverable carbon in Earth’s ecosystems, Nature Sustainability 5: 37-46, doi:10.1038/s41893-021-00803-6.

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