Wildlife in South and Southeast Asia Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
one of the Earth's eight biogeographic realms
About Wildlife in South and Southeast Asia
The Hindu Kush, the Himalayas, and the Patkai range form the border to thePalearctic region. InIndonesia, it bordersthe Australasian region. The big spider-shapedSulawesiisland is the center ofWallacea, a transitional ecosystem between these, identified by both the WWF and Conservation International as a global conservation priority area. The name commemorates the naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, who travelled through the region from 1854 to 1862, age 31 to 39, setting up bases onMakassarandManado, to collect specimens for sale and to study natural history. He noted the differences in mammal and bird fauna between the islands either side of the now-calledWallace line. West of it,Sumatra,Java,Bali, andBorneoshare a mammal fauna similar to that of East Asia, including tigers, rhinoceros, an
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