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Site description (2003 baseline):
Site location and context
Mountainous and steep area (RePPProt 1988) flat ground only on the northern part. Almost no settlement present, only some small clusters of indigenous Buru Island live in this area. The activities of community around this area are dry land farmer, hunting, and collecting forest product. People activities in the northern coastal area are agriculture, and collecting forest product to supply collectors or buyer from other island or for own consumption (Persulessy 1997). Main comodities are coconut, cacao, clove, coffee and melaleuca oil.
There are 3 birds species with uncertain status: Blue-fronted Lorikeet
Charmosyna toxopei, Seram Honeyeater
Lichmera monticola, Seram Oriole
Oriolus forsteni. The threatened endemic bird species in Buru Island Black-losed Parrot
Tanygnathus gramineus lives in this area.
Although only few records of this bird from this species, but based on habitat analysis, it is predicted that the area has big population of this species. The same possibility also for Rufous-throated Darkeye
Madanga ruficolis (Poulsen & Lambert 2000, BirdLife International 2001).
Non-bird biodiversity: The other biodiversity (endemic of Buru Island) is Troides (=Troides) prattorum, Varanus gouldi, Nyctimene minutus varius, Pteropus temminckii liops and Rhinolophus euryotis burius, Rattus rattus moluccarius (Flanery 1995, Monk et.al.1997)
Semi-evergreen forest in the western part and central area, and moist deciduous forest in the northern part. Meanwhile the southern part is covered by evergreen rainforest (Monk
et.al.1997).
Pressure/threats to key biodiversity
Logging, bad reboisation system, expansion of plantation, and hunting.
145000 ha of this area has been proposed as a Nature Reserve (Smiet
et.al.1981, Silvius
et.al.1996, Coates & Bishop 1997, Monk
et.al.1997). PKA/BirdLife International-Indonesia Programme proposed 138116 ha nature reserve based on their study (Smiet
et.al.1981, Silvius
et.al.1986, Monk
et.al.1997).
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Gunung Kepala Madang (Indonesia). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/gunung-kepala-madang-iba-indonesia on 22/11/2024.
