The Biodiversity of Bac Huong Hoa Nature Reserve - Birdlife ...

Map 2. Bac Huong Hoa Nature Reserve (Quang Chi FPD)
2.2 Demographics
The residents of Cop and Cuoi villages are an indigenous ethnic minority group, the Van Kieu.
They have a low economic status, 83% of households in the nature reserve are classified as poor
and the remainder rank as average. The Van Kieu in the nature reserve have three main sources
of income, namely: cattle, small-scale agriculture and forest resource exploitation. On average,
these people obtain 40% of their income from exploitation of forest resources and this percentage
is increasing due to the activities of wildlife traders.
2.3 Biogeographical location
The nature reserve is just beyond the northern limit of Priority Landscape CA1, of the Greater
Truong Son Landscape (Tordoff et al. 2003). However, it is included in the Central Annamites
Landscape, which is bounded by the coordinates 14°00' to 17°30'N and 106°00' to 109°00'E and
the Greater Annamite Ecoregion (Baltzer et al. 2001). Biogeographically, this region is
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