Abstract:
Environmental and ecological changes in the course of time have threatening the very survival of
the human race on earth. The transformation of the natural world by human action has an effect
on both the nature and the people. Such phenomenon has given way to the evolution of modem
environmental history in the 201hcentury. Accordingly, this study as part of the environmental
hi~tory deals with the malaria epidemics in in the former Qolla-Daga Damot Awrajja. Population
movement and ecological changes were the major factors that contributed to the outbreak of
recurrent malaria epidemics across many regions in Qolla-Daga Damot Awrajja. Ber-Salaqo, in
Jabi-Tahenan Warada, served as the dissemination center of malaria and recurrent malaria
epidemic outbreaks. The agricultural productivity of Ber-Salaqo brought both the attention of the
government to the agricultural development programs and the nearby woredas people, such as
Quarit and Daga-Damot where lands are inconvenient for agricultural practices. Therefore,
tremendous ecological changes were brought to Ber-Salaqo and which in tum brought changes in
the pattern of malaria transmission in the region. The wide spread of the malaria malaria
infection in the Qolla-Daga Damot districts was effected by the returnees with the malaria
paRasite to the malaria receptive areas of Quarit and Daga-Damot. Therefore, this thesis analyze
the ecological changes, population movement from the daga regions to qolla with in the awraja
itself along with the vagaries of weather as the major causes to the spread of malaria
transmission and recurrent malaria epidemics m the study area .