Wetlands International Indonesia Programme

The Tanimbar Islands form the second largest archipelago in south-east Molucca. The largest island is Yamdena, which is surrounded by dozens of smaller ones. At the western coastline of Yamdena there are beach heads fringed by tidal mudflats. Inland there are seasonal swamps. Going further inland, the land remains relatively flat for about 20km and then rises gently for another 20km to form a row of hills. The area contains a delta at the west coast. The forest in the central part of Yamdena is virtually untouched and has great conservation value as one of the few remaining areas of lowland decidous forest in Indonesia. In the delta of Wai Ranarmoje there are extensive mangrove swamps, reaching up to 10km inland. Nypa and Oncosperma characterize the transition zone to freshwater conditions. Principal vegetation: Mangal communities: Aegiceras corniculatum, Bruguiera, Ceriops, Avicennia, Rhizophora, Nypa fruticans. Freshwater swamps: Oncosperma sp. The surrounding islands, particularly Angwarmase Island, is fringed with sandy beaches and coral reefs. PHPA/Birdlife International (1993) calculated that the proposed Ranarmoye Wildlife Reserve contains 1,865 ha of swamp forest, 6,529 ha mangrove forest, and 12,236 ha coral reefs.

Site Location

Tanimbar islands is located at the southeast of Maluku. To get to Yamdena Island: Ambon-Tual-Saumlaki (Yamdena island) by plane about 2.5 hours or by ship about 3 days. To get there by boat, catch one of the passenger boats, Bukit Siguntang or Rinjani, from Ambon to Kei (more or less weekly), the Tatamailau from Kei (once a month, 15 hrs), or ferry from Kei (once a week, 30 hours).

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List of Birds (51 species)

Species	Red Data Book	Cites
Anas gibberifrons
Aplonis crassa	Lower Risk
Ardea sumatrana	Lower Risk
Butorides striatus
Cacatua goffini	Lower Risk	App I
Cettia carolinae	Lower Risk
Charadrius leschenaultii
Chrysococcyx crassirostris
Dendrocygna guttata
Ducula bicolor
Ducula concinna
Ducula rosacea
Egretta garzetta
Egretta sacra
Eos reticulata	Lower Risk	App II
Erythrura tricolor
Esacus magnirostris
Fregata ariel
Fregata minor
Gerygone dorsalis
Haliaeetus leucogaster		App II
Haliastur indus		App II
Himantopus himantopus
Lichmera squamata
Macropygia magna
Microeca hemixantha	Lower Risk
Monarcha cinerascens
Monarcha mundus	Lower Risk
Myiagra ruficollis
Ninox squamipila		App I
Numenius madagascariensis	Lower Risk
Nycticorax caledonicus
Oriolus bouroensis
Pachycephala pectoralis
Pandion haliaetus		App II
Pelecanus conspicillatus
Phalacrocorax melanoleucos
Phalacrocorax sulcirostris
Philemon moluccensis
Pitta elegans
Ptilinopus regina
Ptilinopus wallacii
Rhipidura fuscorufa	Lower Risk
Rhipidura opistherythra	Lower Risk
Sula leucogaster
Tadorna radjah
Threskiornis molucca
Tyto sororcula	Deficient Data	App II
Vanellus miles
Zoothera machiki	Lower Risk
Zoothera schistacea	Lower Risk

List of Mamal (8 species)

Species	Red Data Book	Cites
Bubalus bubalis
Dugong dugon	Vulnerable	App I
Mus musculus
Myotis adversus
Paradoxurus hermaphroditus	Vulnerable
Phalanger orientalis		App II
Suncus murinus
Sus scrofa

List of Fish (1 species)

Species	Red Data Book	Cites
Glossogobius giuris

List of Crustaseans (0 species)

List of Mollusk (0 species)

List of Fish (0 species)

List of Reptile (6 species)

Species	Red Data Book	Cites
Chelonia mydas	Endengered	App I
Crocodylus porosus	Vulnerable	App II
Eretmochelys imbricata	Critically Endengered	App I
Hydrophis mertoni
Lygosoma sp.
Varanus sp.

List of Vegetation (30 species)

Species	Red Data Book	Cites
Acanthus ilicifolius
Acrostichum aureum
Aegiceras corniculatum
Avicennia sp.
Barringtonia asiatica
Bruguiera gymnorhiza
Bruguiera parviflora
Bruguiera sexangula
Bruguiera sp.
Calophyllum inophyllum
Camptostemon schultzii
Cerbera manghas
Ceriops sp.
Ceriops tagal
Cocos nucifera
Dolichandrone spathacea
Excoecaria agallocha
Heritiera littoralis
Hibiscus tiliaceus
Lumnitzera littorea
Nypa fruticans
Oncosperma sp.
Osbornia octodonta
Pandanus tectorius
Rhizophora apiculata
Rhizophora sp.
Rhizophora stylosa
Sonneratia alba
Xylocarpus granatum
Xylocarpus moluccensis