Red Barat Daya

Kecamatan Red Barat Daya Southwest Roti District
Basic data
Country	Indonesia
province	East Nusa Tenggara
Administrative district	Red Ndao
Seat	Batutua
Residents	19,737 (2010)
ISO 3166-2	ID-NT
politics
Camat	Arcipus Nalle

Coordinates: 10 ° 52 ′  S , 122 ° 59 ′  E

Batutua

Location in East Nusa Tenggara Province

Rote Barat Daya ( German  Südwestroti ) is an Indonesian district ( Kecamatan ) in the administrative district of Rote Ndao (province of East Nusa Tenggara ). The main town is Batutua on the Bay of Buka . 19,737 people live in the district.

geography

Rote Barat Daya is located in the southwest of the island of Roti . In the south is the Timor Sea , in the north the districts Rote Barat and Rote Barat Laut join, in the east the district Lobalain . The district also includes the smaller islands of Pamana (Dana, Dona, Ndana), Helihana , Landu , Manuk , Batu Bibi and Liu . The district is divided into 13 villages (Desa):

• Batutua (1,624 inhabitants, 2010)
• Dolasi (995)
• Lalukoen (1,416)
• Lekik (801)
• Mbokak (1,566)
• Meoain (1,706)
• Oebafok (1,323)
• Oebatu (1,834)
• Oebou (1,766)
• Oehandi (1,615)
• Oelasin (2,221)
• Oeseli (1,505)
• Oetefu (1,365)

fauna

The district is one of the areas where the last specimens of the Chelodina mccordi mccordi , a subspecies of the McCord's snake-necked tortoise, can be found . She lives by Lake Anak . Here, too, the turtle is on the verge of extinction due to illegal animal trade and loss of habitat.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Map of Roti
2. ↑ ^{a b} Penduduk Indonesia menurut desa 2010 ( Memento from March 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Indonesian; PDF; 6.0 MB), accessed on January 26, 2013
3. ↑ Rhodin, AGJ, Ibarrondo, BR and Kuchlin, G .: Chelodina mccordi Rhodin 1994 - Roti Island snake-necked turtle, McCord's snake-necked turtle, kura-kura red in: Rhodin, AGJ, Pritchard, PCH, van Dijk, PP , Saumure, RA, Buhlmann, KA, and Iverson, JB (Eds.). Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN / SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs No. 5, pp. 008.1-008.8, doi : 10.3854 / crm.5.008.mccordi.v1.2008 ( ISSN  1088-7105 ), 2008 (English).
4. ↑ Eisemberg, CC Costa, BG Guterres, EC Reynolds, SJ & Christian, K .: Assessment of Chelodina mccordi current status and community awareness along the Lake Iralalaro, Timor-Leste ( Memento of the original from November 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info : The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Report to the Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund, Turtle Conservation Fund, and Andrew Sabin Family Foundation, by the Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, 2014.