Current view: Text account
Site description (2003 baseline):
Site location and context
Wetland International (1997) describes this area as globally important wetland, with a very good condition of mangrove forest in West Kalimantan and this area also has a good peat swamp. This area is proposed as Ramsar site under the name of
Southern Kapuas Swampsland.
Almost no information about bird from this area. Holmes (1997) recorded
Ciconia stormi in Kubu River. This area probably has the same bird diversity as Gunung Palung.There is no more information except publication from Wetland International (1997). Storm's Stork
Ciconis stormi is the only important species recorded in this area.
Non-bird biodiversity: Nasalis larvatus, Helarctos malayanus, Crocodylus porosus and Tomistoma schlegelii (Wetlands International 1997).
Peat-swamp forest (45%), freshwater swamp forest (10%), mangrove (10%), and others.Land use: forestry (70%), 20% for fisheries and the rest for agriculture.
Pressure/threats to key biodiversity
Infrastructure development plan (proposed for harbor development at Padang Tikar area), forest conversion (for plantation and transmigran), legal or illegal logging, hunting activity, forest fire in dry season. Increasingly of mangrove conversion for pond since 1998 has reported (Nyoman kom. pri.).
Proposed as a Ramsar site.
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Rawa di Pesisir Kapuas (Indonesia). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/rawa-di-pesisir-kapuas-iba-indonesia on 23/12/2024.
