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Place Category: EcozonesPlace Tags: Oriental
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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.
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Philippines
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Indonesia – West Papua, Raja Ampat & the Moluccas
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Vietnam
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Thailand
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Sri Lanka
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Singapore
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Pakistan
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Nepal
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Myanmar (Burma)
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Peninsula Malaysia
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Sulawesi
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Java and Bali
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India
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Hong Kong
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China
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Cambodia
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Borneo
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Bhutan
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Bangladesh
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The Maldives
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Resources – Books
Brenard, H., and Brooke, M. (eds). 1994. Insight Guides: South East Asia Wildlife. Appa Publications, Hong Kong. Not much use as a field guide, but some good information on national parks in Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines along with species you might see in each.
Francis, Charles M. 2001. A Photographic Guide to the Mammals of South East Asia. This is a pocket guide which covers most, but not all, of the larger mammals and a few of the smaller ones. Its quite useful though Francis’s 2008 Field Guide is much better. However, this is the only book I could find that deals with Java and Sumatra.
Francis, Charles M. 2008. A Field Guide to the Mammals of South East Asia. This is just a fabulous field guide and long overdue. The illustrations are brilliant, particularly for the bats. Indispensable for any trips to Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia. Unfortunately it does not cover Java and Sumatra, though his other (smaller) book does.
Resources – Websites
Ecology Asia maintains its niche in providing an easy introduction to the amazing diversity of Southeast Asia’s vertebrates. The website includes more than 800 factsheets, made easily accessible by a simple top-down menu system. And nice photos too, all taken in natural settings.
Southeast Asia Vertebrate Records is a short-note, peer-reviewed, online journal, launched on 1st January 2016 to publish records of interest. SEAVR’s area of interest comprises the 10 nation states of Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines, Brunei, Indonesia and Timor-Leste. Extralimitally, sighting records from Papua New Guinea (PNG) are also of interest.