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Figure 13 Priorities Conservation Areas delineated based on HCVAs, PCA-4 purple, PCA-3 blue, PCA-2 orange and PCA-1 green.
4.1.1.1 Priority Conservation Areas-1
Priority Conservation Areas-1 in Figure 13 dark green color consists of four areas, such as i Jaco Island, ii Tutuala Beach and Adjacent Forest, iii
Paitchao Mountain Range and iv Lore Reserve Forest. Areas that considered as Priority Conservation Areas-1 are areas which
globally, regionally or nationally significant concentrations of biodiversity values. These areas might be nationally defined by law as protected areas, concentration
area for Threatened and Endangered Species, Endemic Species and or Critical temporal use. Biophysics data analysis indicated that PCA-1 is covered 180.78
km
2
or 26.69 of terrestrial park.
Table 17 Percentage areas of Priority Conservation Areas-1 Components
Area km
2
Areas Jaco Island
11.10 1.64
Tutuala Beach and Adjacent Forest 82.40
12.17 Paitchao Mountain Range
30.15 4.45
Lore Reserve 57.12
8.43 Total
180.78 26.69
4.1.1.1.1 Jaco Island
Jaco Island is a most eastern tip of Timor Island that under Timor-Leste sovereign. It’s a non populated island with size 11.1 km
2
. The area covered by 9.8 km
2
of unfragmented tropical dry deciduous forest. During preliminary vegetation inventory using tracking line method listed 2 IUCN Threatened and Red List
Species of at least 31 species identified that growth in the Jaco Island.
Table 18 Protected plants species recorded in Jaco Island
Local Name Scientific Name
Family Freq. IUCN
Valurvalur Elaeocarpus amhemicus
Elaocarpaceae 7
Threatened Aina
Pterocarpus indicus Fabaceae
5 Red List
Data explored from Santana F, 2005
Jaco Island also significant habitat for Timorese Deer Cervus Timoresnsis, they could survived without freshwater, since there is not freshwater
38 available in the Island. The white sands where surrounded the island is the nesting
of Near Threatened Green Sea Turtle Chelonia mydas. Jaco Island is habitat of water birds, which some are categorized as Near Threatened and Restricted Range
species. At least seven bird species was recorded with GPS device tools by Colin during 2003-2004 in two sites, Cece Beach and Masici Beach.
Conservation issues that was discover is plastics rubbish a long of the beach, harvested mostly of Green Sea Turtle and its eggs by local communities.
No data recorded forest degradation in Jaco Island.
Table 19 Important birds recorded in Jaco Island Species
Location Abundance
Actitus hypoleucos Masici Beach, Cece Beach
3 Ardea purpurea
Masici Beach 1
Arenaria interpres Masici Beach
8 Charadrius mongolus
Masici Beach 6
Egretta sacra Masici Beach, Cece Beach
9 Heteroscelus brevipes
Masici Beach, Cece Beach 6
Numenius phaeopus Masici Beach
18 Pluvialis squatarola
Masici Beach 5
Sterna bergii Masici Beach
1 Tringa stagnatilis
Masici Beach 1
Data explorer from GPS points by Colin Trainor, 2003-2004
4.1.1.1.2 Paitchao Mountain Range and Tutuala Beach Forest
