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Site description (1999 baseline):
Site location and context
Located around 40 km north of Denpasar. The topografy of this area consist of deep valleys, slopes and three crater lakes including Danau Bratan. No less than 1/3 of Bali's hot spring found in this area. Batukaru is one of the five highest mountain in Bali, three of them above of 2000 m (Whitten
et.al.1996).
Moss forest, lower mountain forest and upper mountain forest on recent volcanic soils (MacKinnon
et.al.1982)
Pressure/threats to key biodiversity
Illegal settlement, forest cutting and illegal hunting (MacKinnon
et.al.1982).
176280 ha of this area declared as Nature Reserve based on SK Menteri Pertanian No.716/Kpts/Um/11/74 on 29 November 1974 (Anon 1997, Anon 1998).
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Batukaru (Indonesia). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/batukaru-iba-indonesia on 22/11/2024.
