Wetlands International Indonesia Programme

The site is an estuarine habitat. The main river is Paloh river which has a length of about 10 km, that runs south-west direction. The water of Paloh river originally comes from three main rivers, Cermai, Bemban, and Asuansang rivers. Paloh is surrounded by hilly area, including Cermai, Asuansang, Melintang, and Belautunggal mountains. The flat coastal and estuarine area is mainly vegetated by mangrove forests, nypa swamp forest, and peat swamp forest. Sandy beaches occur along the coastline of Paloh (30-50 m-wide). Rocky shores occur at Tanjung Api and Tanjung Munggu Resak. The sandy beaches are habitats for turtle nesting site. Five species are believed to occur : The Hawksbill turtle (Eretmochyelys imbricata), Olive ridley turtle (Lepidochelys olivaceae), Leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea), Loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta), and the Green turtle (Chelonia mydas). FURKON (1997 pers comm, in WIBOWO 1997) informed that the freshwater river terrapin/Tutong (Batagur baska) often uses the sandy beaches as nesting site as well. The sandy beaches covers a coastal stretch of about 15 km. The vegetation consists of dry-beach forest and mangrove swamp, with some Nypa along the Belacan river. Some of the mangrove forests are highly disturbed by logging activities. Principal vegetation: Mangal communities, including Avicennia, Rhizophora, Bruguiera, Sonneratia and Nypa. Casuarina marina stands occur on the beach.

Site Location

Paloh, which is one of the sub-district towns in Sambas district, can be reached from Sambas by car. A 45 km paved road connects Sambas with Paloh. A harbour at Paloh gives access to the sea and small villages upstream of Paloh river (Wibowo, 1997)

Special Memmo

The site includes coastal area of Paloh (including Tj.Api to Tj.Datu), estuarine wetlands of Paloh river and its cathments (see also site: Asuansang mountain and Hutan Sambas) (WIBOWO, 1997).

List of Birds (57 species)

Species	Red Data Book	Cites
Actitis hypoleucos
Aegithina tiphia
Aethopyga mystacalis
Alcedo euryzona	Vulnerable
Alcedo meninting
Amaurornis phoenicurus
Artamus leucorhynchus
Blythipicus rubiginosus
Caprimulgus affinis
Centropus bengalensis
Centropus sinensis
Chalcophaps indica
Charadrius dubius
Chrysocolaptes validus
Collocalia esculenta
Copsychus saularis
Corvus enca
Coturnix chinensis
Cuculus fugax
Cuculus micropterus
Cymbirhynchus macrorhynchos
Dicaeum trigonostigma
Ducula aenea
Ducula bicolor
Ducula pickeringii	Vulnerable
Egretta eulophotes	Endengered
Egretta intermedia
Esacus magnirostris
Eurostopodus temminckii
Eurylaimus ochromalus
Falco moluccensis		App II
Halcyon chloris
Haliaeetus leucogaster		App II
Haliastur indus		App II
Hemiprocne longipennis
Hirundapus giganteus
Hirundo rustica
Lalage nigra
Lonchura fuscans
Lonchura malacca
Loriculus galgulus		App II
Macronous gularis
Nectarinia jugularis
Ninox scutulata		App II
Orthotomus ruficeps
Orthotomus sericeus
Pandion haliaetus		App II
Phodilus badius		App II
Prinia flaviventris
Pycnonotus goiavier
Pycnonotus simplex
Rhaphidura leucopygialis
Rhipidura javanica
Sterna albifrons
Streptopelia chinensis
Tephrodornis gularis
Treron vernans

List of Mamal (13 species)

Species	Red Data Book	Cites
Antechinus habbema	Deficient Data
Callosciurus notatus
Cervus unicolor
Helarctos malayanus	Deficient Data	App I
Macaca fascicularis	Lower Risk	App II
Macroglossus minimus
Manis javanica	Lower Risk	App II
Muntiacus muntjak
Mus musculus
Nasalis larvatus	Vulnerable	App I
Paguma larvata
Paradoxurus hermaphroditus	Vulnerable
Pteropus vampyrus		App II

List of Fish (1 species)

Species	Red Data Book	Cites
Labroides dimidiatus

List of Crustaseans (0 species)

List of Mollusk (0 species)

List of Fish (0 species)

List of Reptile (5 species)

Species	Red Data Book	Cites
Callagur borneoensis		App II
Chelonia mydas	Endengered	App I
Eretmochelys imbricata	Critically Endengered	App I
Lepidochelys olivaceae	Endengered	App I
Varanus salvator		App II

List of Vegetation (5 species)

Species	Red Data Book	Cites
Avicennia sp.
Bruguiera sp.
Nypa sp.
Rhizophora sp.
Sonneratia sp.