Strategi Konservasi di Pulau Sulawesi dengan Menggunakan Tarsius sebagai Flagship Spesies  

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Shekelle, Myron ; Leksono, Suroso Mukti

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah nasional - tidak terakreditasi DIKTI
Dalam koleksi: Biota Jurnal Ilmiah Ilmu-ilmu Hayati vol. IX no. 1 (Feb. 2004), page 1-10.
Topik: Conservation; biogeography; flagship species

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: BB74.1 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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We present a strategy to preserve the biodiversity of Sulawesi and nearby islands chains. Sulawesi is the primary landmass in the biogeography zone known as Wallacea, and is listed as one of the world's top 25 hotspot at threat for major loss of biodiversity. Sulawesi is hypothesized to be subdivied into regions of endemism. W argue that the best strategy for preserving the totality of Sulawesi biodiversity, given the vast bulk of that biodiversity remains virtually unstudied or even unknown, is to use biogeographic data to make a comprehensive map of regions of endemism in Sulawesi and to protect primary habitat in each region. We present a hypotesis that we call the "hybrid biogeographic hypotesis" that syntesizes two previous biogeographic hypotesis, one from empirical biological data and one from empirical biological data and one from geologic data. We present a map of tarsier acoustic group distributions thatoffers heuristic evidence that the former hypotesis is more comperhensive than either of the latter two. We note that some of these regions have multiple conservations areas, while several other have none at all and can be thought of as "hotspots within the hotspot". Evidence indicates that an endemic taxon of tarsier inhabits nearly every known endemic region of Sulawesi and surrounding island chains, although most of these taxa are underscribed. We propose to use tarsiers as flagship species to justify new conservation arears that will preserve primary habitat in those regions that currently lack them. Tarsiers are superior to other potential flagship species because they havethe requisite charisma and are disttributed throughout Sulawesi in a broad variety of habitats, but they do not eat agricultural products or have other characteristic that might engender local resentment to their conservation. This plan requires naming several new taxa of tarsiers, each of which requires reference material. Exiting museum populations are inadequate for these needs and new museum specimens are required. We argue that the most beneficial way for this program to proceed is to trap wild tarsiers and house them in captivity until they expire naturally, at which time they will enter the collections of the museum Zoologicum Bogoriense. While in captivy these tarsiers will provide enormous apportunities for reseach, training, education, and conservation. We will encounter local resistance to conserving tarsier eat agricultural products, and this false belief must be corrected through community education. This critical condition of habitat destruction in Sulawesi warrants immediate action.

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