The main activity of this project is to protect wildlife and other biological resources in the NT2 Watershed with particular emphasis on endangered Annamite endemic species for ensuring their long-term well-being and continued viability through effective and proactive law enforcement. In this regard, samples of fecal samples from otter species (Eurasian otter Lutra lutra, Smooth-coated Otter Lutrogale perspicillata, Asian Small-clawed Otter Aonyx cinereus) will be collected in the wild in Nakai-Nam Theun National Park from November 2019 to April 2020. The samples will be then sent to Conservation Ecology Program, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi in Thailand in order to conduct DNA extraction in the laboratory.

This permission is hereby issued as the evidence of the utilization of genetic resources for research purposes only, which is not valid after 31 December 2023. The Association Project Anoulak, as a user, must submit a copy of the sample information with the permission of the local partner, MAF, to the ABS authority in order to register each export till ending project, and must share the research results and publications (all partners must be included as co-authors in the resulting publications) with the local partner and ABS authority in order to acknowledge the provider of genetic resources. If further experiment of the genetic resources is used for commercial purposes, the user then needs to inform the authority and the ABS agreement must to be established among the user and provider.