Oriental

Oriental

The Oriental (South East Asian) Ecozone

The Orient. Home to Tigers and Tapirs, Gibbons and gastro. And where the driving, the menus and the massage parlours are full of surprises.

The Oriental (Indo-Malayan or South East Asian) Ecozone here stretches from Afghanistan through the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia to lowland southern China, and includes the Philippines and Indonesia as far east as Java, Bali, and Borneo. Sulawesi however which lies to the east of the Wallace line lies in the Australasian Zone.

Information – sometimes detailed, sometimes less so – on mammal watching in many areas is included on this site. Country (or State and Territory) pages include lists of resources specific to them.  Some more general resources are listed below.