Indonesia biological richness
A book issued by Conservation International
prove biodiversity in Indonesia's second largest
world after Brazil. Can the state manage this gift?
Germs across the sea appeared, the elephant in the invisible eyelids.
This old saying can also describe how ironic life
humans. People have reached the moon, but thousands of species of animals and
plants on the earth itself, not all of them recognized. Indeed, without realizing it,
humans have destroyed the diversity of life is to
moment called economic interests.
Awareness about how rich green planet called Earth is a
try built by the book Megadiversity: Earth's Biologically wealthiest
Nations, which made its debut last December. 503 thick book
page that worked together under the coordination of agencies
Conservation International (CI) were successfully mapped in a rigid
wealth of flora and fauna of the earth with the base state.
From 17 countries observed (America, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador,
Peru, Venezuela, Brazil, Congo, South Africa, India, Madagascar,
Malaysia, Indonesia, China, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, and Australia),
Indonesia ranks third after Brazil and Colombia in
this diversity of flora and fauna. But, in the case endemisitasnya (type
typical species) may be proud that Indonesia ranked
top. If these two criteria are combined, Indonesia is in place
second after Brazil. Wealth is indeed remarkable that
compared with the area. You see, in this one
Indonesia is only the eighth position, with a less extensive
than 2 million square kilometers. Compare this with the country's most extensive,
namely China, the extent of nearly 10 million square kilometers, but only
was in eighth place in the diversity and endemicity.
If checked per subcategory, Indonesia is also still a big heart.
For vascular plant species and vertebrate animal or
vertebrates, for example, our country is in the first place with a score
collection of 19,300 species. The total number of biodiversity reach
325,350 species of flora fauna. This wealth was actually untapped
all because of poor database owned Indonesian biota. To
category of mammals, for example, Indonesia had''lost "with Brazil.
Whereas in the database''in 1982 Indonesia number of mammal collection
one in the world, "said Jatna Supriatna, Director of Conservation International
Indonesia.
Mapping of biodiversity in this book is Megadiversity
not the work of the first. Birdlife International, for example, once
do it in Endemic Bird Area project (EBA) to map
conservation priorities endemic birds. In addition WWF also been
make Conservation Potential Threat Index (CPTI) to measure
potential threats to the flora and fauna.
What's new is the approach Megadiversity biodiversity
by combining state-based benchmarks diversity
and endemicity. Previously, mapping is performed CI
by using the approach hotspots and wilderness areas. In
hotspot, the region is not divided by country but the region,
with benchmarks endemicity and threat. So, the world was divided into
17 hotspot areas, with two of them are in Indonesia, namely
Wallacea (Sulawesi, Nusa Tenggara, and Maluku), and the Sunda region
(Java, Kalimantan, Sumatra, and Peninsular Malaysia). While
in wilderness areas, the world was divided by the area that has
block the vast forest. Indonesian territory in this category
is Irianjaya. Megadiversity approach, the pressure on
the importance of the state as a preferred environmental management.
In other words, the state was politically responsible for life
the demise of thousands of species that live in the country.
A book issued by Conservation International
prove biodiversity in Indonesia's second largest
world after Brazil. Can the state manage this gift?
Germs across the sea appeared, the elephant in the invisible eyelids.
This old saying can also describe how ironic life
humans. People have reached the moon, but thousands of species of animals and
plants on the earth itself, not all of them recognized. Indeed, without realizing it,
humans have destroyed the diversity of life is to
moment called economic interests.
Awareness about how rich green planet called Earth is a
try built by the book Megadiversity: Earth's Biologically wealthiest
Nations, which made its debut last December. 503 thick book
page that worked together under the coordination of agencies
Conservation International (CI) were successfully mapped in a rigid
wealth of flora and fauna of the earth with the base state.
From 17 countries observed (America, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador,
Peru, Venezuela, Brazil, Congo, South Africa, India, Madagascar,
Malaysia, Indonesia, China, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, and Australia),
Indonesia ranks third after Brazil and Colombia in
this diversity of flora and fauna. But, in the case endemisitasnya (type
typical species) may be proud that Indonesia ranked
top. If these two criteria are combined, Indonesia is in place
second after Brazil. Wealth is indeed remarkable that
compared with the area. You see, in this one
Indonesia is only the eighth position, with a less extensive
than 2 million square kilometers. Compare this with the country's most extensive,
namely China, the extent of nearly 10 million square kilometers, but only
was in eighth place in the diversity and endemicity.
If checked per subcategory, Indonesia is also still a big heart.
For vascular plant species and vertebrate animal or
vertebrates, for example, our country is in the first place with a score
collection of 19,300 species. The total number of biodiversity reach
325,350 species of flora fauna. This wealth was actually untapped
all because of poor database owned Indonesian biota. To
category of mammals, for example, Indonesia had''lost "with Brazil.
Whereas in the database''in 1982 Indonesia number of mammal collection
one in the world, "said Jatna Supriatna, Director of Conservation International
Indonesia.
Mapping of biodiversity in this book is Megadiversity
not the work of the first. Birdlife International, for example, once
do it in Endemic Bird Area project (EBA) to map
conservation priorities endemic birds. In addition WWF also been
make Conservation Potential Threat Index (CPTI) to measure
potential threats to the flora and fauna.
What's new is the approach Megadiversity biodiversity
by combining state-based benchmarks diversity
and endemicity. Previously, mapping is performed CI
by using the approach hotspots and wilderness areas. In
hotspot, the region is not divided by country but the region,
with benchmarks endemicity and threat. So, the world was divided into
17 hotspot areas, with two of them are in Indonesia, namely
Wallacea (Sulawesi, Nusa Tenggara, and Maluku), and the Sunda region
(Java, Kalimantan, Sumatra, and Peninsular Malaysia). While
in wilderness areas, the world was divided by the area that has
block the vast forest. Indonesian territory in this category
is Irianjaya. Megadiversity approach, the pressure on
the importance of the state as a preferred environmental management.
In other words, the state was politically responsible for life
the demise of thousands of species that live in the country.
