Southern of Xayabury ^Featured

Nowadays, the South of Sayaboury province displays a marked degradation of the cultivated ecosystem, the almost total disappearance of trees from the landscape, and destruction of the downstream road and rice growing infrastructures. Woodland zones, serving as a biological filter along rivers, have entirely disappeared from these environments.Thought needs to be given on a provincial and national level to the management of these landscape units, based on: (re)constitution of gallery forests (multiple species incorporating medicinal plants, timber and non‑wood products) to help protect water courses and recreate a powerful natural filter limiting the risks of pollution by pesticides and suspended particles, establishment of  living hedges around plots using fast-growing species with multiple uses (paper mulberry, elephant grass, Acacia sp.) and maintaining woodland corridors essential for the movement of wildlife, protection of weak zones upstream of these catchment areas by reforestation and use of ...
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