BIODIVERSITY WHAT IS BIODIVERSITY? • The existance of many kinds of organisms on earth • Scientiests have catalogued about 2 million species of organisms on earth (CBD) • A species is a group of organisms which share similiar characteristics and can breed with one another BIODIVERSITY IN INDONESIA • Indonesia is one of the world’s richest nations in erms of its biodiversity • According to Conservation International, Indonesia is one of the 17 mega diverse countries, with 2 of the world’s 25 biodiversity hotspots, 18 World Wildlife Fund’s “Global 200” ecoregions and 24 of Bird Life International’s Endemic Bird Areas (source: https://blogs.ntu.sg) • It also possesses 10% of the world’s flowering species (25,000 flowering plants) and ranks as one of the world’s centres for agro biodiversity of plant cultivars and domesticated livestock. For fauna diversity, about 12% of the world’s mammals (515 species) occur in Indonesia, placing it second, after Brazil, worldwide. About 16% of the world’s reptiles (781 species) and 35 species of primate rank Indonesia fourth in the world. Moreover, 17% of the total species of birds (1,592 species) and 270 species of amphibians place Indonesia in the fifth and sixth ranks, respectively, at the global level (source: https://blogs.ntu.sg)
