Following the November 2007 conference, Population, Health and Environment (PHE): Integrated Development for East Africa in Addis Ababa, there had been an outcry for PHE integration throughout Ethiopia. The context for applying an integrated approach toward improved livelihoods is clear, considering Ethiopia’s vast deforestation, land degradation, rapidly growing population, high rates of unmet need for family planning and maternal mortality challenges, not to mention how climate change will exacerbate them. This document looks at a project initiated in the Bale Mountains in Southeast Ethiopia, a little known biodiversity treasure. The Bale Mountains National Park (BMNP) is a watershed for parts of Ethiopia and Somalia, providing a source of mineral-rich water as well as firewood, grazing land, medicinal plants and food for thousands of households. As in many parts of rural Ethiopia which face grave livelihood and health challenges affecting diminished agricultural land and a rapidly growing population, local people are increasingly forced to cut trees for fuel and timber to feed and provide for their families. Organizations, such as MELCA, have partnered up to conserve the environmental and cultural resources of BMNP since 2005. Since March 2008 MELCA started to implement an integrated Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) project in the Bale Region. Enclosed in the document are some of their findings and research results in integrating this project.