I was again invited to do a survey for EIA by school of biological sciences,USM. This time, it was in Johor. we used the same road going to the Peta, Endau-Rompin, but we took a right turn after about half an hour drive in from the main road. We stayed at a 'kongsi' own by a businessman who planted cloned rubber trees. The 'kongsi' was meant for the workers of course.
The forest was said to be unproductive secondary forest, which is why they wanted to convert it to cloned rubber tree estate.
After going into the forest, i realized that it is a peat swamp forest. I'm surprise by the diversity, especially bird wise of the area. I manage to record more than 90 species of birds. Other than that, we also captured a bat which we've never seen before,although it is common at Krau Reserve, Hipposideros ridleyi.
Here are some of the shots taken from here,
Tiger shrike
Balionycteris maculata, Spotted Winged Fruit Bat
Buff Vented Bulbul
Cream Vented Bulbul
Black Shouldered Kite. I noticed that this species is in a process of nesting
Striated Swallow
Footprint, belongs to some sort of small cat
Measuring the water quality
Black Bellied Malkoha
Red Naped Trogon
Hipposideros ridleyi
Leptobrachium nigrop
Little Green Pigeon
Maxomys surifer
Red Billed Malkoha
Savanna Nightjar
A Tapir's footprint. Found at quite a few different area, showing that tey are surviving well here..
It's a pity to see this biodiversity rich area will be destroyed but we can only propose them to do selective clearance and not total clear fell. I hope these wildlife will find their new home...
8 comments:
Hi Muin
I hope you can convince them to adjust their plans, but somehow I doubt it! By the way, the swallow is more likely to be Red-rumped. Migrant Striated has not been recorded with certainty in Pen Malaysia.
Dave
It would be a real shame to lose something like this. Not many places like this left.
Our country should put more effort on conservation of nature.
Thanks Dave for the correction. I'm really sad to say that the forestry has given them a one sided agreement. They'll get the land...sooner or later.
If they are not willing to adjust their plans, it only shows that they only wished to do an EIA for show, showing others we had did one and probably falsely telling people that it was approved after the EIA.... sobbing....
Do agree with Dave, your swallow is a Red-rumped, Striated is only so far represented by the resident "badia" form in Peninsular Malaysia that is often proposed to be a distinct species itself, named as the Rufous-bellied Swallow.
From your photo, we can see that the streaks looked less thick. But keep looking, maybe the Striated may occur as a vagrant here. However from most sources, all subspecies of Striated are generally residential unlike the Red-rumped. However there were vagrant/migrant records in East Malaysia that suggests the "mayri" could had been a partial migrant but lately seemed that these records must be further verified to ensure that there were no confusions with the Red-rumped there since the two were originally conspecific in the past.
pretty exciting line of work I say. heaven for nature lover la.
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