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Site description (2003 baseline):
Site location and context
Coastal area is used for agriculture, inland area is alocated for medicinal plant collection and wild boar and deer huntimg. Most of the people work as dry land farmer. Main comodities are coconut, cashew, coffee, cacao, clove and nutmeg.
Pulau Kobroor is an interesting area because of its avifauna is a mixed between Moluccas and Papua. Palm Cockatoo
Probosciger atterimus and King Bird-of-paradise
Cicinurus regius live in this area.
Non-bird biodiversity: Thylogale brunii, Spilocucuc maculatus chrysorrhous, Cervus timorensis moluccensis (Hitipeuw & Tuhumury 1999 obs.pri.).
Evergreen rainforest and semi-evergreen rainforest (Monk
et.al.1997). The wetland habitats in this area are offshore islands, tidal mudflat, mangrove forest, laguna, beach swamp/salty swamp and freshwater swamp. Around 2-3 km from the beach there is a primary forest (Silvius
et.al.1986).
Pressure/threats to key biodiversity
Natural habitat alteration for plantation and settlement, parrot and bird of paradise catching for trade.
170000 ha of this area is declared as Wildlife Sanctuary based on SK Mentan 296/DJ-VI/BP/1987 (Monk
et.al.1997).
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Pulau Kobroor (Indonesia). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/pulau-kobroor-iba-indonesia on 23/11/2024.
