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Ba Na Nature Reserve 1996 12.0 HUMAN IMPACT ASSESSMENT Socio-economic surveys were conducted among people living in and around the reserve area, to assess the extent of the utilisation of the forest resource by local people. Interviews were carried out, using a Rapid Rural Appraisal (RRA) techniques, consisting of a standard structured questionnaire, with people in the communities adjacent to the reserve, and with loggers and other forest workers within the boundary of the reserve. 12.1 Forest Use: Logging Official logging operations, which were being carried out by Forestry Enterprise, the commercial wing of the Forestry Department in Da Nang, over the period of the 1994 phase, have now ceased in the Ba Na region. Currently, around ten loggers are working to extract the last felled timber (mainly large dipterocarps such as Dipterocarpus and Hopea spp., but including many tree species). The men have in the past worked in the forest for six days a week from January to October each year, returning to their farms in Hoa Ninh and surrounding villages for October to December. However, illegal logging activities, concentrating on the high-value timber species Sindora sp. (used in cabinet making), are still continuing. These operations are small-scale, the sawn timber generally being removed by bicycle. 12.2 Forest Use: Other forest products During the 1994 Frontier phase at Ba Na, large quantities of rattan (Calamus spp.) were observed being taken from the forest. These were harvested by groups of 10-15 workers who spent periods of several days in the forest, transporting the rattan out by logging truck. However, very little rattan was harvested from the forest in the VN9503 phase. Few large specimens of the rattan palms were seen in the forest, and it is possible that this resource had been over-harvested (although it is in theory renewable, new stems growing from the base of the plant to form harvestable canes in a few years). The bark of trees in the family Lauraceae was gathered by several families in the forest, for use in the production of resins. However, these activities are now illegal within the reserve. Hunting is carried out on an organised basis in the reserve, with species such as Asiatic Black Bears (Selenarctos thibetanus) being highly prized, but many mammal species being taken. In addition, forest tortoises (Geomyda and Cistoclemmys spp.) were taken by hunters and forest workers, as the shells are valued in traditional Chinese medicine. 12.3 Tourism During the period of the VN9503 phase, large groups of local Vietnamese tourists visted the reserve, drawn by the scenery and waterfalls. However, facilities for tourism are scant and unlikely to attract foreign tourists: over the period of the phase, only five groups of foreign tourists were seen, mainly on day-excursions from Da Nang. All were under the impression that the summit of BaNa was accessible by road, having little information about the area. Unless the infrastructure of the area is improved considerably, it appears unlikely that tourism will be able to develop here. However, any such development would need to be sensitive to the ecological and scenic value of the reserve. Future plans to reinstate the French road to the Ba Na summit, and possibly reconstruct the hill station there, could prove popular with tourists from Da Nang but would increase local disturbance of the forest. Access would be easier for poachers, although the improved facilities should also make policing of the reserve easier (at present, there is little or no Frontier- Vietnam Environment Research Report 7 32
Ba Na Nature Reserve 1996 official monitoring of the reserve). Other proposed developments at the edge of, or impinging onto, the reserve (including a golf course and hydroelectric facilities) will also bring direct ecological impacts. There is a danger that any such developments could encourage further projects in the area, and all would be fuelled by an improvement of road links. Frontier- Vietnam Environment Research Report 7 33
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Page 52 and 53: 23 Swintonia sp. S Fl,Fr O,T 24 Tox
Page 54 and 55: 30. Connaraceae 106 Connarus cochin
Page 56 and 57: 45. Illiciaceae 199 Illicium sp. P
Page 58 and 59: 289 Rhodomyrtus tomentosa Fl 290 Sy
Page 60 and 61: 86. Solanaceae 373 Physalis angulat
Page 62 and 63: 457 Pandanus gressitii 109. Poaceae
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Page 70 and 71: Perciformes Family Anabantidae 29)
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Page 74 and 75: 14. Vernal Hanging-parrot (Loriculu
Page 76 and 77: 85. Oriental Magpie-robin (Copsychu
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