Red tengah

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Kecamatan Red Tengah
Central Roti District
Basic data
Country Indonesia
province East Nusa Tenggara
Administrative district Red NdaoTemplate: Infobox administrative unit / maintenance / other
Seat Fe'opopi
Residents 8058 (2010)
ISO 3166-2 ID-NT
politics
Camat John Nitte

Coordinates: 10 ° 40 ′  S , 123 ° 7 ′  E

Fe'opopi (Lesser Sunda Islands)
Fe'opopi
Fe'opopi
Location in East Nusa Tenggara Province

Rote Tengah ( German  Zentralroti ) is an Indonesian district ( Kecamatan ) in the administrative district of Rote Ndao (province of East Nusa Tenggara ). The main town is Fe'opopi ( Feapopi ) in the north of Rote Tengah. 8,058 people live in the district.

geography

Rote Tengah is located on the north coast of the center of Roti Island . It is divided into seven villages:

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 . They live in Lakes Peto and Toea . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / riel.cdu.edu.au