Looking For an Exciting Flora as well as Fauna Diversity?
Biodiversity in Indonesia is well sawn over it is rich as well as unique ecosystems.Indonesia, the world’s hugest archipelago, consisting more than 17,508 islands stretching 5,000 km (3,200 miles) from Sabang (northern tip of Sumatra) to Merauke (Papua), is divided into three primary geological groups:
The Sunda Islands:
The Greater Sunda Islands are composed of Sumatra, Java, Borneo as well as Sulawesi.
The Lesser Sunda Islands are composed of a chain of littleer islands east of Java, from Bali to Lombok, Sumbawa, Sumba, Flores as well as Timor. Known as Nusa Tenggara, they are divided into West Nusa Tenggara, composed of Bali as well as Lombok, as well as East Nusa Tenggara, stretching from Sumbawa to Timor.
The Moluccas or the Maluku islands
The Western New Guinea as well as Aru Islands
These geological groups have it is own distinct flora as well as fauna in accordance to the Wallace Line, named afterwards the British naturalist Alfred Wallace in his voyage by the Malay Archipelago.
The Wallace Line divides Indonesia into 2 distinct flora as well as fauna zones, a western, Asian ecological zone as well as an eastern, Australian zone.
The Greater Sunda Islands, including Bali, are closely associated to the Asian ecological zone. Once linked to the Asian primaryland, this zone offers huge Asian animals, such that as elephants, tigers, rhinoceroses, orangutan as well as the dense tropical rainforests of Asia. Mainly ascertained in Sumatra, here you will be able to ascertain the world’s hugest flower, “Raffflesia arnoldii”, named afterwards Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, the ascertaineder of Singapore. Its diameter could reach up to a meter as well as could weigh up to 10 kg.
Visiting this zone, Sumatra as well as Borneo, will provide you goes along with a chance to saw the “Orangutan” (man of the forest).
The 2 “Orangutan” rehabilitation centers in Bohorok, North Sumatra as well as Tanjung Putting National Park, Central Kalimantan, present the opportunity to saw these primates in their natural settings.
Contrary to the lush tropical rainforest as well as big animals of the western Wallace Line, Australian zone of Western New Guinea, Aru Islands, the Maluku islands, Lesser Sunda as well as Sulawesi have distinctive flora as well as fauna. Western New Guinea as well as Aru islands were when region of the Australian primaryland as well as are the overly places in Indonesia to have marsupial mice, kangaroos as well as Australian reptiles. Western New Guinea is a Garden of Eden for bird watching enthusiast. With more than 600 species of bird, especially the well-known cassowary, you are guaranteed to fulfill your bird watching passion.
The Maluku islands, Lesser Sunda as well as Sulawesi have long time been isolated between the 2 landmasses. Perhaps the Babi Rusa as well as Anoa, native species of Indonesia, are the 2 most distinctive animals which you would saw in Sulawesi.
If it is diversity in flora as well as fauna which you sawk, Indonesia offers unlimited excitement. You will feel amazed to saw what you could experience in just this overe magnificent country, Indonesia.