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Site description (2003 baseline):
Site location and context
Nangga Rawa village located on the beach. Gunung Poco Ndeki is the highest mountain in this area (separated from the forest block in Nangga Rawa), isolated from the main mountains area in central Flores (Gibbs 1990).
In the 1998 a survey hold by BirdLife International-Indonesia Programme (Trainor & Lesmana 2000) to assess the population of Yellow-crested Cockatoo
Cacatua sulphurea. There was no
Cacatua sulphurea found by the survey team. Interview with the local people indicated that the
Cacatua sulphurea is difficult to find. There was similar result from other survey one year before by Cambridge Flores/Sumbawa Conservation Project in 1993. This survey also shown that only few record for Flores Crow
Corvus florensis in this area,and the species can only be seen in the forest along river (Butchart
et.al.1996). Around 100 birds recorded in this area.
The important habitat is tropical moist deciduous forest on volcanic rock (Trainor & Lesmana 2000). Most of the forest on altitude between 0-500 m (70%) and the remaining between 500-850 m.Semi-deciduous forest and deciduous forest are used for grazing area and plantation, thorny shrub, evergreen forest along of river and small group of mangrove on the coastal area.Most of grassland below 200 m.
Pressure/threats to key biodiversity
Illegal hunting and logging (Butchart
et.al. 1996, Trainor & Lesmana 2000).
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Nangarawa (Indonesia). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/nangarawa-iba-indonesia on 22/11/2024.
