Tonda Wildlife Management Area
Tonda Wildlife Management Area | |
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Location in New Guinea | |
Location | Western Province, Papua New Guinea |
Nearest city | Merauke |
Coordinates | 9°00′05″S 141°32′40″E / 9.00139°S 141.54444°E[1] |
Area | 5,900 km2 (2,300 sq mi) |
Established | 1975 |
Designated | 16 March 1993 |
Reference no. | 591[2] |
The Tonda Wildlife Management Area is a
Vegetation and fauna
The terrain is flat, generally less than 45 metres above sea level. It includes tidal river reaches, mangrove areas, swamps, grassland, savanna woodlands and patches of monsoon forest. Most trees are of the genus Acacia and Melaleuca while common grasses are Phragmite and Pseudoraphis.
It is an important wetland for over 250 species of resident and migratory
Fifty-six species of fish have been recorded.
Traditional landowners
The land is under customary ownership. About 1,500 subsistence gardeners and hunters live in the area in 12 villages.[3] The western part of Tonda covers land of the Kanum peoples.[7]
Conservation
Tonda
Cross-border issues
The WMA is the subject of poaching by people from neighbouring Papua Province, Indonesia. Local people also harvest and sell a number of wildlife resources to merchants on the other side of the border, including deer meat and antlers, candlenut, the plastra of freshwater turtles, shark fins, saratoga (Scleropages jardinii) fingerlings and the dried swim bladders of certain fish.[10]
See also
References
- ^ "Tonda Wildlife Management Area". MPA Global. Retrieved 9 December 2012.
- ^ "Tonda Wildlife Management Area". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
- ^ a b c d e Ramsar report for Tonda Wildlife Management Area, retrieved 15 May 2010
- ^ a b UNESCO: Trans-Fly Complex, retrieved 15 May 2010
- ^ Brolga, USGS. Archived 3 March 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Hitchcock, G. 2002 "Fish fauna of the Bensbach River, southwest Papua New Guinea" Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 48 (1): 119-122
- ^ Michele Bowe: One landscape, two lands: what the international border means for community-based natural resource conservation in southern New Guinea in The New Guinea Tropical Ecology and Biodiversity Digest, Issue 12, 2002, retrieved 16 May 2001
- ^ PacLII: Papua New Guinea Consolidated Legislation - Fauna (Protection and Control) Tonda Wildlife Management Area Rules 1976, retrieved 16 May 2010
- ISBN 0-7946-0483-8
- ^ Hitchcock, G. 2004. Wildlife is Our Gold: Political Ecology of the Torassi River Borderland, Southwest Papua New Guinea. PhD Thesis, The University of Queensland