Project Description

Our team of multi-taxa researchers joined forces to conduct a short biodiversity assessment at a commercial recreational place in West Java. Often overlooked, the peri-urban ecosystem holds the insight of species adaptation to human settlement and intervention on the ecosystem. We swept across 28 hectares of area in the bank of the large Cisadane River, collecting as many wild fish, arthropods, gastropods, herpetofauna, and mammals (bats) that we could find.

The activity is meant to provide an ideal case of collaboration between scientists, conservation practitioners, and business or land owners. In developed countries, landowners are among the most critical stakeholders in conservation efforts (including large wild predators), and we would like to invite more businesses and landowners to join the bandwagon in biodiversity assessment. A biodiversity data baseline is the key to every conservation strategy and conflict mitigation; thus, we are required to possess it prior to any decision-making process.

This project is co-funded by Species Obscura, Batoo Farm Adventure, and Indonesia Herpetofauna Foundation.

Area

Batoo Farm Adventure, Ciseeng, West Java

Type

Multi-taxa Assessment