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Fauna is the name given to the animal life of a certain period of time or of a certain part of the world. It corresponds to the word flora, which means the plant life of a certain place or time. Thus we may speak of the fauna and flora (animals and plants) of North America or of a past geological period. The term fauna comes from the name of a Roman goddess of fields and flocks. Animals come in many shapes and sizes. They live throughout the world. Animals walk or crawl on land and dig through the soil. They swim in the water and fly through the air. They even live inside the bodies of other animals. Bats, dogs, horses, kangaroos, and moles are all animals. So are butterflies, frogs, jellyfish, pigeons, sharks, snakes, and worms.

FAUNA INDONESIA

GAMBAR SATWA LIAR FAUNA INDONESIA

Pulau Kelelawar

EKOWISATA PULAU MARSEGU

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ALIEN OF THE DEEP

Indonesia has been identified by all recent international conservation priority-setting exercises as a global priority for actions to conserve biodiversity. For example, in Conservation International (CI) considers Indonesia to be one of 17 “megadiversity” countries -- with two of the world’s 25 “hotspots.” It has 18 of the World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) “Global 200” ecoregions, and 24 of Bird Life International’s 218 “Endemic Bird Areas.” It also has 10% of the world’s flowering plant species and ranks as one of the world’s centers for agrobiodiversity of plant cultivars4 and domesticated livestock. Indonesia’s unusually high levels of species richness and endemism are explained by the fact that it straddles two biogeographic regions, is located in the wet tropics, has many islands and an extremely complex geological history. The country ranks first in the world for number of mammal, palm, swallowtail butterfly, and parrot species (World Bank 2001; BAPPENAS 2003). Further, it is one of the world’s centers of species diversity of hard corals and many groups of reef-associated flora and fauna; indeed, it has the highest coral species richness in the world (Suharsono 1998).