SEAMEO BIOTROP Annual Report fiscal year 2016-2017

The fiscal year in review marks the end of BIOTROP’s Ninth Five-Year Development Plan (9th FYDP 2012-2017). Under
this 9th FYDP, the Centre has envisioned itself to be “A Leading Centre in enriching and promoting the real values of
tropical biology in Southeast Asia.”
Like the previous fiscal years, the Centre made notable accomplishments in implementing its 9th FYDP as well as its
other targets set for the fiscal year in review.
With its mission of “providing scientific knowledge, technology and developing organizational and human
resource capacity in conserving and managing tropical biological assets sustainably for the welfare of society and
environmental sustainability in Southeast Asia”, the Centre saw itself contributing to addressing community and
environmental issues and concerns through its mandates in research, capacity building, information exchange
and community development. These accomplishments are summarized under SEAMEO’s key result areas, namely:
regional leadership, regional visibility, and solid resource base
1. Regional Leadership
2. Regional Visibility
3. Solid Resource Base