Gunung Niut-Poteng (15899)
Indonesia, Asia
Site overview
KBA status: confirmed
Year of last assessment: 2001
National site name: Gunung Niut-Poteng
Central coordinates: Latitude: 0.9500, Longitude: 109.9667
System: terrestrial
Elevation (m): 150 to 1709
Area of KBA (km2): 1409.45247
Protected area coverage (%): 59.88
KBA classification: Global/Regional TBD
Legacy site: Yes
Site details
Site description: Gunung Niut (1709 m) is an old volcano, located near Sarawak (border between Indonesia and Malaysia in West Kalimantan).
Rationale for qualifying as KBA: This site qualifies as a Key Biodiversity Area of international significance because it meets one or more previously established criteria and thresholds for identifying sites of biodiversity importance (including Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas, Alliance for Zero Extinction sites, and Key Biodiversity Areas)
Additional biodiversity: The information about bird in this area based on 10 days observation in 1987 by Prieme & Heegard (1988). Mountain Barbet Megalaima munticola (350 m longer than the distribution detected before), and also Black-breasted Fruit-hunter Chlamydochaera jefferyi, Mountain Wren-babbler Nopothera crassa and Mountain Tailorbird Orthotomus cuculatus (500-700 km longer than the distribution detected before). Bonaparte's Nightjar Caprimulgus concreatus has found in lowland forest, and one of three observers recorded in Kalimantan last decade.Birds species in Perissen Mountain range and Poi Mountain range probably present in this area (Smythies 1981), like Long-billed partridge Rhizothera longirostris, Bornean Wren-babbler Ptilocichla leucogramica, Chestnut-capped Laughingthrush Garrulax mitratus, White-browed Shrike-babbler Pteruthius flaviscapis, Pale Blue-flycatcher Cyornis unicolor, Bornean Blue-flycatcher Cyornis superbus, Rufous-tailed Jungle-flycatcher Rhinomyias ruficauda, Everett's White-eye Zosterops everetti, Pygmy White-eye Oculocincta squamifrons. Non-bird biodiversity: Tupaia gracilis, Tupaia montana, Tupaia splendidula, Hylobates muelleri, Nasalis larvatus,Presbytis rubicunda, Muntiacus atherodes, Pongo pygmeus, Helarctos malayanus and Neofelis nebulosa (MacKinnon et.al, 1996)This area has important botanical value in Kalimantan in NCP (FAO 1982)
Habitats
Summary of habitats in KBA: Lower mountain forest (probably upper mountain forest also present), and at lower slope probably there is no Dipterocarpacea forest and heath forest anymore, some part of the area still covered with lowland forest.Around 60% of this area covered by lowland forest, 10% upper mountain forest and secondary vegetation, & shifting agriculture.About 70% of this area are used for conservation and watershed management, and the remaining area is used for shifting agriculture activity.
Land use: agriculture | nature conservation and research (70%)
| IUCN Habitat | Coverage % | Habitat detail |
|---|---|---|
| Artificial - Terrestrial | 50 | |
| Forest | 50 |
Threats
Summary of threats to biodiversity at KBA: Land conversion, illegal logging, animal hunting and infrastructure development.
Additional information
References: Anon. 1995. Statistik Perlindungan Hutan dan Pelestarian Alam. Departemen Kehutanan dan Perkebunan, Direktorat Jenderal Perlindungan Hutan dan Pelestarian Alam, JakartaMacKinnon, K., Hatta, G., Halim, H., and Mangalik, A. 1996. The Ecology of Kalimantan: Indonesian Borneo. The Ecology of Indonesia Series, Vol. 3. Singapore: Periplus Edition.F.A.O. 1982. National Conservation Plan for Indonesia. Vol.V.Kalimantan. Field Report of UNDP/FAO National Parks Development Project INS/78/061.Bogor.Smythies, B.E.1981. The birds of Borneo. Third edition. The Sabah Society with the Malayan Nature Society.