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Site description (1999 baseline):
Site location and context
Located on the eastern part of Java around 15 km west of Banyuwangi, the eastern part of Plateau Ijen dominated by a group of mountains consist of Gunung Merapi, Ijen Crater and small mountains such as Gunung Widadanen, Gunung Papak and Gunung Pawenen. Ijen Crater linked Maelang-Ijen-Raung that formed the biggest mountains area in East Java.
Non-bird biodiversity: Cuon alpinus, Panthera pardus, Sus verrucosus and Trachypithecus auratus (Nijman 1997).
Most of the area is forested with climax of
Casuarina forest and
Albizzia montana (MacKinnon
et.al.1982).
Pressure/threats to key biodiversity
Forest cutting, forest fire and sulphur collection (MacKinnon
et.al.1982, Watling 1990a).
Known as Kawah Ijen Ungup-ungup (2468 ha), declared as Nature Reserve based on GB No. 46 Stbl.736 on 9 October 1920 (Anon 1997, Anon 1998)
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Gunung Ijen (Indonesia). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/gunung-ijen-iba-indonesia on 23/12/2024.
