Wildlife Alliance's Surviving Together program was piloted in Thailand's first national park, Khao Yai, in 1999. Wildlife Alliance and Thai officials, in collaboration with village leaders, designed a comprehensive management system to reduce illegal use of the park's resources while addressing the needs of the impoverished local communities surrounding the parks.

Wildlife Alliance and TRAFFIC support governments of Southeast Asia to enforce wildlife protection laws and treaties and to ensure that Asia's wildlife are protected for the benefit of future generations. Asia is a global hotspot for illegal poaching, wildlife trafficking and endangered species consumption. This concentration derives from several factors including: regionally high biodiversity; well-established transportation links and smuggling routes; nominal allocations of local and international government resources to the issues; and low public awareness of regional conservation and sustainability needs.