II. SITE DESCRIPTION
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II.6. DEGRADATION IMPACTS AND DRIVERS
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| 1. Main degradation impacts |
| Impact description |
% Project area affected |
Impact sevetity |
Comments |
| low |
medium |
high |
| Deforestation |
|
- |
- |
- |
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| Species loss |
|
- |
- |
- |
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| Exotic invaders |
|
- |
- |
- |
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| Pest and diseases |
|
- |
- |
- |
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| Soil erosion |
|
- |
- |
 |
Great geomorphlogical activity on channels and marly gullies. |
| Flooding |
|
- |
- |
- |
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| Landslides, debris flows |
|
- |
- |
- |
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| Soil salinisation |
|
- |
- |
- |
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| Soil toxicity, pollution |
|
- |
- |
- |
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| Wildfires |
|
- |
- |
- |
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| 2. Degradation drivers |
|
Period of activity |
Still active today? |
Main root causes |
| Less intense |
More intense |
Equal intese |
No |
| Marginal agriculture |
1900s-1960s |
|
- |
- |
- |
poverty |
| Overgrazing by wild animals |
|
- |
- |
- |
- |
|
| Overgrazing by domestic animals |
|
- |
- |
- |
- |
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| Over-explotation of fuel-wood |
until 1950s |
- |
- |
- |
|
poverty |
| Over-explotation of timber wood |
|
- |
- |
- |
- |
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| Land abandonment |
1950s-1980s |
- |
- |
- |
- |
poverty and mismanagement of land |
| Urbanisation |
|
- |
- |
- |
- |
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| Pollutants |
|
- |
- |
- |
- |
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| 3. Environmental risk/hazards in the project area |
| Enviromental risk/hazards in the project area |
Years of the last recorded events or periods |
| Prolonged drought periods |
|
1991-1994 |
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| Killing frost periods |
- |
|
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| Frequent and/or severe wildfires |
- |
|
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| Extreme rainfall event (erosion, flooding) |
|
1973 |
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