Important Bird Areas Data Preparation

19 Table 6 Percentage of land covers classes divided per category Category Class Area km 2 of Area Food Crops Arable 49.76 7.35 Ricefield 2.91 0.43 Smallholder Crops 11.22 1.66 63.89 9.44 Forested Land Forests 340.55 50.28 Bareland 29.85 4.41 Grassland 73.71 10.88 Woodland 139.3 20.57 242.86 35.86 Non Productive Wetland Shurbs 23.75 3.51 Rural Settlements Village and Mixed Gradens 6.69 0.99 Waterbodies Lake 1.49 0.22 Agriculture Land Total Agriculture Land Non Productive Dryland Total Non Productive Dryland Figure 5 Land cover classification based on Satellite Imagery Landsat TM5 Nov 2006

3.4.3 Important Bird Areas

Nationally, identified 3 out 15 Timor-Leste Important Bird Areas IBAs existed within national park, TL06 Lore, TL07 Mount Paitchao and Iralalaro Lake, and TL08 Jaco Island. The globally threatened bird species occurred in Timor-Leste only 4 species, the cockatoo, Timor Imperial Pigeon, Timor Green 20 Pigeon and Wetar Ground dove. Only two of these the cockatoo and green pigeon occur in the Nat Park. All Globally Near threatened birds – about 15 species Colin Trainor, Pers. Comm. December 2010. Colin Trainor on 2003 has listed almost birds’ species and collected its geo-positioning by using GPS device and data stored in tabular format. Through spatial data analysis has modeled a mostly good quality habitat of birds within national park. Distribution sites of birds developed aims to indicate areas that need to be considering as habitat of endangered, threatened, near threatened and restricted range Timor Birds to fulfill the High Conservation Values Assessments. The distribution sites were generated by sum together all number recorded of GPS points in a particular site and processed by inverse distance weighted IDW method of spatial analysis. Based on exploratory of tabular data has classified twelve different sites based on the abundance species birds recorded. Referred to Figure 6, those sites are such as: Less abundance areas A, Malahara Woodland B, Iralalaro Lake C, Veihoorana Lake-Ooaloho Swamp D, Assalaino Woodland E, Com Beach F, Numunira Lake G, Vero River Estuary H, Namaluto River Estuary I, Masici Beach J and Cece Beach K. In the spatial birds distribution several species that have same position of Latitude and Longitude were grouped to avoid coincident of spatial data analysis. 21 Figure 6 Spatial distribution sites in bird survey, interpolated by inverse distance weighted.

3.4.4 Threatened Trees Species Distribution