Priority Conservation Areas-2 Delineation of Priorities Conservation Areas

40 Table 22 IUCN protected birds recorded in Lore Reserve Species Abudance IUCN Ardea sumatrana 5 Near Threatened Anhinga melanogaster 1 Near Threatened Charadrius peronii 4 Near Threatened Esacus neglectus 2 Near Threatened During preliminary potential survey found frequency of trees counted dominated by five species such Pometia pinnata, Pterosperum acerifolium, Haplolopus floribundus, Intsia bijuga, and Canarium sp, there is also indicated that at least 3 trees species that IUCN categorized as Red List and Threatened Species. Table 23 IUCN protected Plants Species recorded in Lore Reserve Local Name Scientific Name Family Freq. IUCN Aina Pterocarpus Indicus Fabaceae 105 Red List Aibesi Intsia bijuga Fabaceae 29 Red List Aimanuhirus Anthiaris toxicaria Moraceae 9 Threatened Data explored from Santana F, 2005

4.1.1.2 Priority Conservation Areas-2

Priorities Conservation Areas-2 brown color in Figure 13, is globally, regionally or nationally significant large landscape level forests. This part of the HCVA definition aims to identify those forests that contain viable populations of most if not all naturally occurring species. It also includes forests that contain important sub-populations of very wide-ranging species even though the sub- populations may not in themselves be viable in the long term. It includes forests where ecological processes and ecosystem functioning are wholly or relatively unaffected by recent human activities. Such forests are necessarily large tens of thousands of hectares. Table 24 Percentage of Priority Conservation Areas-2 41 PCA-2 Component Area km 2 Area Forest Habitat Corridor 102.45 15.13 Total 102.45 15.13 Priorities Conservation Areas-2 identified in NKSNP is a forest community between Paitchao Mountain Range and Lore Reserve. It’s occupied 102.45 km 2 or 15.13 forested land. It is needed to consider this forests area as habitat corridors that connecting Paitchao Mountain Range and Lore Reserve and Paitchao Mountain Range and North Dry Low Land Forest. It’s also significant forest for watersheds catchment such Urunami Catchments consists of several permanent major rivers, such as Namao River, Lapalapa River and Urunami River. Corridor forest play important functions in wilderness movement such birds and mammals from and to Paitchao Mountain Range, Vero River Estuary, Valu Beach, Iralalaro Lake Birds Site, and Lore Reserve Forest, Com Beach, Numunira Lake and surrounded areas. Swidden and slash burn agriculture and illegal logging are major issue in forest degradation. Re-allocated to a permanent agriculture land for agro-diversity along major roads or permanent agriculture land would be help decreasing the cutting trees for cropping.

4.1.1.3 Priority Conservation Areas-3