Group 5: Central Annamites Location: Main Room

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Group 5 Central AnnamitesLocation Main Room

• 1. Dr. Bach Tan Sinh
• 2. Bruce Ravesloot
• 3. Mr. Nguyen Van Quang
• 4. Dr. Nguyen Tien Hiep
• 5. Mr. Nguyen Vien
• 6. Dr. Renae Stenhouse
• 7. Dr. Le Xuan Canh
• 8. Mr. Savanh Chanthakoummane
• 9. Mr. Somphone Bouasavanh
• 10. Mr. Tran Huu Nghi
• 11. Mr. Van Ngoc Thang

• Facilitators
• 1. Mr. Colin McQuistan
• 2. Dr. Luong Quang Huy

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Central Annamites
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Habitat

• Limestone forest / Karst
• Evergreen forest
• Everwet Pl. Refogia
• Broadleaf mixed conifer
• Lagoon
• River basin

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Species
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Ecosystem services

• Electricity potential Hydropower
• Water supply irrigation / urban
• Groundwater conservation
• EcoTourism
• Carbon storage
• Livelihoods safety net forest/wetland resources
• NTFPs (medicinal, ornamental)
• Cultural / Spiritual Services
• Erosion / landslide / flood control
• Soil conservation
• Micro-climate regulation (rainfall, temp.)

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Developments
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Impacts priority order

• Impacts ranked according to (i) Severity (ii)
  Reversibility (iii) Scale
• Severity scale of impacts to biodiversity value
• Extinction / biodiversity loss
• Habitat loss
• Wildlife / timber trade
• Degradation of waterways (including erosion,
  sediment, etc.)
• Relocation / settlement / population growth
  (including loss of traditional knowledge

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Other impacts

• Fishery (negative at downstream, positive at
  reservoirs)
• Payment for Environmental Services
• Pollutions (air, water, soil)
• Pressure on traditional livelihoods
• Increased accessibility to economically valuable
  species
• Land price fluctuation
• Ecotourism development / opportunity
• Protected areas planning
• Chemical contamination
• Infrastructure development
• Increase subsistence logging and hunting
• Invasive species
• Loss of natural restoration areas

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Sensitivity / Vulnerability

• Habitat
• Summit conifer forest
• Steep slopes
• Coastal lagoons
• Wetlands
• Species
• Montane birds
• Turtle and terappins
• Ecosystem services
• Hydropower potential
• Water supply (agriculture, urban)
• Wetland resources
• Forest (uncertain)
• Erosion control / Soil conservation

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Unknown / Uncertainty / Gaps

• Little understanding of
• The Annamites ecology
• Inherent species plasticity
• Species migration as temp and rainfall changes
• Seasonal changes of temp and rainfall
• Seasonal humidity changes
• If less wet months, everwet forest being
  vulnerable

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Impacts and Adapation

• Central Annamites

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Climate change impacts on developments

• Prioritised
• Erosion / Landslides / Degradation of
  infrastructure
• Forest Fire
• Plantations expansion / shifts
• More water storage scheme
• Agriculture productivity changes
• Other relevant concerns
• Flood
• Pollutions
• Sedimentation
• Changes of National Strategies
• Increase of Protected Areas

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Combined impacts on biodiversity / NR
Climate Change Impacts
Developments
Drought
Storm events
Water storage
Logging
Farming
Roads
Fire
Flood
Habitat loss Biodiversity reduction Changes in
aquatic ecology
Soil erosion Slope instability Sedimentation
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Adaptation options

• Priority
• Protected areas enhancement (i) Terrestrial (ii)
  Wetlands and (iii) Lagoons
• Smart Infrastructure Planning
• Integrated Water Resources Management
• Landscape restoration / reforestation
• Climate-tolerant agriculture (community-based)
• Effective use of local knowledge
• Additional
• REDD and REDD
• Biodiversity planning
• Improvement of Forest Fire Control System
  (community-based)
• Invasive species control
• NTFP-based livelihoods development

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Capacity / Institutional Needs (1)

• Protected Areas Management
• Capacity building and strengthen human resources
• PA Unit in the Division of Forestry and Resource
  Conservation (DFRC) in Laos to be upgraded to
  Department level
• Funding to be diversified (Gov. NGOs, Private
  sectors) to setup new PAs and meet the need of
  current Pas
• Improvement of Law Enforcement
• Landscape restoration
• Infrastructure Planners consider restoration
• Awareness raising for planners
• Joint monitoring for REDD, Invasive species,
  Forest Fire, Transboundary Trade and Climate
  Change indicator species

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Capacity / Institutional Needs (2)

• Awareness raising
• Community and authority at district / community
  level,
• Participatory planning
• Facilitate adaptive planning
• Research
• Address uncertainties
• Improve understanding / interpretation between
  Scientist and Policy Makers
• IWRM Capacity, concepts, institutional
  cooperation
• Transboundary collaboration and cooperation