Deforestation impacts

B. Piko (1402013)

Ta oi District, Saravane

CLIMATE CHANGE & DISASTERS

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

PRIORITIES & NEEDS

  1. Construct water facility (borehole)
  2. Repair water reservoir
  3. Build latrine (Sanitation)

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Ecosystem & Services:

  • - Rice
  • - Maize
  • - Livestock
  • - Vegetables
  • - Wood
  • - Stream

Sources of Income:

  • - Subsistence agriculture
  • - Livestock

Education:

  • - Primary
  • - High school
Basic Services

IMPACTS:

Health / Water / Livestock

Changes over the past 30 years

DRY SEASON

Slight increase

Some decrease

WET SEASON

Slight Decrease

Slight Decrease

Water-bourne:

  • Allergies
  • Diarrhea
  • Eye
  • Skin

HEALTH

Vector-bourne:

  • Dengue
  • Encephalitis
  • Malaria

  • 1 every 10 years
  • Homes
  • Infrastructure
  • Not changing
  • 1 every 10 years
  • Food
  • Crops
  • Less severe

No Landslides
  • 1 every 10 years
  • livelihoods
  • Less severe
  • Loss of biodiversity (-)
  • Erosion (-)
  • Less food sources (-)
  • More agricultural land (+)

AGE: 0-17 18-56 >56

42%

17%

17%

8%

35%

17%

6%

58%

DEMOGRAPHICS

Population (2017):

739

Main ethnic group:

Bakoe

Other ethnic group:

Ta Oy, Katang

Religion:

Animism

Hazard Intensity: 0.93

Sensitivity: 2.9

Ranking: 2.71

VULNERABILITY INDEX

Hydropower impacts

   No hydropower dam

Mining impacts

   No mining activity