National Park Takabonerate

Takabonerate formed from three words: taka means coral, bone means the sand, and the mean rate above. So, Takabonerate means reef in the sand.

Takabonerate the name of a district in Selayar regency, South Sulawesi. Consisting of small islands with sandy beaches are very clean and white.

What is interesting from the beaches, atolls stretching in the sea (coral islands) along the 220,000 hectares. Being the third longest in the world after Kwajifein in the Marshal Islands and Suvadiva in Moldiva. In addition, the sea is also inhabited marine animals large and rare.

National Park Takabonerate
 

Residents Takabonerate composed of tribes Makassar, Bugis, and Flores. They generally work as fishermen. It is unfortunate because some of them are looking for fish with extreme ways: using explosives which then destroys coral island in the sea.

Top of the habit, the National Park Takabonerate officials seek to build communication with citizens, especially fishermen, so as not to catch fish by damaging.

Takabonerate is a mainstay of tourism in South Sulawesi. In one island named Tinabo, for example, arousal was tourism. Many inns are established to serve foreign tourists or local.

Now, just how trying to preserve the beaches on the islands Takabonerate district.

Bunaken National Park

Bunaken National Park is representative of Indonesia tropical water ecosystems consisting of mangrove ecosystems, seagrass beds, coral reefs, and land / coastal ecosystems. 

In the northern part consists of the island of Bunaken, Manado Tua island, island Montehage, Siladen island, the island of Nain, Nain island is small, and some coastal areas of Cape Pisok. While in the Southern Cape coast includes some coconut.

Potential land islands national park is rich in species of palm, sago, woka, silar and coconut. Animal species that live on land and coastal regions such as Sulawesi black macaques (Macaca nigra nigra), deer (Cervus timorensis Russa), and possum (Ailurops ursinus ursinus).

Plant species in the mangroves of Bunaken National Park namely Rhizophora sp., Sonneratia sp., Lumnitzera sp., And Bruguiera sp. The forest is rich with various types of crabs, shrimp, mollusks and various types of sea birds such as gulls, herons, sea virgin, and cangak sea.

Types of algae found in this national park include the type of Caulerpa sp., Halimeda sp., And Padina sp. Seagrass Montehage dominated mainly on the island, and the island of Thalassia hemprichii Nain, Enhallus acoroides and Thalassodendron ciliatum.

Recorded 13 genera of corals living in waters of Bunaken National Park, dominated by fringing reefs and coral reef barrier. The most interesting is the vertical cliffs as far as 25-50 meters.

Approximately 91 species of fish found in the waters of Bunaken National Park, including fish gusumi horse (Hippocampus horse), white oci (Seriola rivoliana), lolosi yellow tail (Lutjanus kasmira), goropa (Ephinephelus spilotoceps and Pseudanthias hypselosoma), ila trunk (Scolopsis bilineatus) , and others.

Types of mollusks like giant clams (Tridacna gigas), goat head (Cassis cornuta), hollow nautilus (Nautilus pompillius), and tunikates / ascidian.

Wakatobi National Park

Wakatobi National Park

Wakatobi National Park is underwater park in Indonesia. And an area of ​​approximately 1.39 million hectares, Wakatobi National Park has the potential of marine natural resources of great value, both species and uniqueness, which presents amazing underwater panorama. In general, the waters have configurations ranging from flat, sloping towards the sea, and bertubir steep. Varying water depths up to 1044 meters with bottom waters mostly sandy and rocky. The park consists of four major islands, namely Wangi-scented, Kaledupa, Tomia, and Binongko located in Wakatobi, Southeast Sulawesi. The potential of marine natural resources and high value idah underwater panorama that makes Wakatobi National Park was nominated to UNESCO to be one of the World Heritage Site.

In 1994, some people in the team conducted a survey in the Wakatobi IPB. From the results of the survey revealed that they did, that there is a wide range of Wakatobi underwater natural resources, such as coral reefs and various marine animals. Because the natural wealth under the sea, the region presents a panoramic underwater so charming and very nice as a diving activities. After carefully studying the IPB team's findings, the Minister of Forestry in 1996 issued a decree that sets No.393/Kpts-V/1996 Wakatobi as a national park.