Burkina Faso has a larger number of elephants than many countries in West Africa. Lions, leopards and buffalo can also be found there, including the dwarf or red buffalo, a smaller reddish-brown animal which looks like a fierce kind of short-legged cow.

Armenia's terrain is mostly mountainous, with fast flowing rivers and few forests. Armenia has established a Ministry of Nature Protection and introduced taxes for air and water pollution and solid-waste disposal, whose revenues are used for environmental protection activities.

In 1993, the Laos government set aside 21 percent of the nation's land area for habitat conservation preservation.