Talaud

A new monitor lizard has been described from the Talaud Islands of Indonesia.

New Monitor Lizard 2009

A new monitor lizard has been described from the Talaud Islands of Indonesia.

Archive 2009-07-01 2009

BirdLife Indonesia is very active throughout the hotspot, and, together with the World Bank-GEF, promoted a process to resolve community-government conflicts that had prevented progress in forest conservation on the Sangihe-Talaud Islands between northern Sulawesi and the Philippines (with the specific aim of protecting two shrinking forest areas that are the sole home of seven endemic bird species).

Biological diversity in Wallacea 2008

One species found on Sangihe, the cerulean paradise flycatcher (Eutrichomyias rowleyi), is critically endangered, and the red-and-blue lory (Eos histro), Sangihe hanging-parrot (Loriculus catamene), and elegant sunbird (Aethopyga duyvenbodei), all found on Sangihe and Talaud, are endangered.

Sulawesi lowland rain forests 2007

Sangihe is mountainous, reaching an elevation of 1,784 m, whereas Talaud is low-lying.

Sulawesi lowland rain forests 2007

Sangihe and Talaud were largely deforested by 1920, and there is minimal natural forest remaining on these islands.

Sulawesi lowland rain forests 2007

This ecoregion represents the lowland forests (less than 1,000 meters (m)) on Sulawesi and the surrounding islands of Banggai and Sula to the east and Talaud and Sangihe to the north.

Sulawesi lowland rain forests 2007

Several sites in the northern Moluccas, Talaud, and Admiralty Islands have a unique and rather impressive industry of adzes made from shells of large Tridacna and Hippopus clams at about the same date.

Ancient Seafarers 1997

Now the Komodo's got new kin: German scientists stumbled upon a new (to human beings) species of mangrove monitor lizard in the Talaud

WN.com - Articles related to Global climate change causing decline in lizard species 2010

The 6. 5-magnitude quake struck 10 km (6 miles) beneath the earth's surface with an epicentre 117 km off the coast of the Talaud islands, the agency said.

BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2009