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Mamberamo Foja Wildlife Reserve

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Yulianto I., Y. Herdiana, M.H. Halim, P. Ningtias, A. Hermansyah, S. Campbell. 2013. Spatial analysis to achieve 20 Million Hectares of Marine Protected Areas for Indonesia by 2020. Wildlife Conservation Society and Marine Protected Areas Governance. Bogor.
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The reserve encompasses diverse plant communities, including montane rain forests, lowland and hill rain forests, freshwater swamp forests, flooded grasslands and savannas, and mangroves. The majority of the reserve is in the
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The reserve was gazetted by the Indonesian government in the 1980s, and later expanded to include the Foja Mountains. For decades conservation NGOs have proposed that the reserve become a national park.
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At a two-day seminar on 7 and 8 November 2014 organized by the Yayasan Lingkungan Hidup, a local NGO, villagers requested that the government convert the wildlife sanctuary to a national park.
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The lower reach of the Mamberamo includes Rombebai Lake, New Guinea's largest. The river delta includes freshwater swamp forests and coastal mangroves.
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region, a landscape of freshwater swamp forests and lowland rain forests south of the Central Range. The eastward-flowing
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meander through the region forming oxbow lakes and wetlands, and join to form the northward-flowing Mamberamo.
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Yomo, Albert (2014). "Local Community Wants Mamberamo Foja Sanctuary to Become National Park".
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Conservation and Development in Irian Jaya: A Strategy for Rational Resource Utilization
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ecoregion, while the portions of the Foja range above 1000 meters elevation are in the
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The reserve follows the eastern bank of the Mamberamo and includes the
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Northern New Guinea lowland rain and freshwater swamp forests
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Index

protected area
New Guinea
Indonesia
Papua Province
Mamberamo River
Central Range
Pacific Ocean

Lakes Plains
Tariku River
Taritatu River
Foja Mountains
Northern New Guinea lowland rain and freshwater swamp forests
Northern New Guinea montane rain forests





"Northern New Guinea lowland rain and freshwater swamp forests"

Categories
Protected areas of Western New Guinea
Geography of Papua (province)
Mamberamo basin

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