Mangrove ecoregion that covers extensive areas of the coastline New Guinea
New Guinea mangroves
New Guinea mangroves
Location of the New Guinea mangroves (in purple)
Ecology
Realm
Australasian realm
Biome
mangroves
Borders
List
Biak–Numfoor rain forests
Northern New Guinea lowland rain and freshwater swamp forests
Southeastern Papuan rain forests,
Southern New Guinea freshwater swamp forests
Southern New Guinea lowland rain forests
Trans-Fly savanna and grasslands
Vogelkop–Aru lowland rain forests
Geography
Area
25,303 km2 (9,770 sq mi)
Countries
Indonesia
Papua New Guinea
Provinces
Papua
West Papua (Indonesia)
Central
East Sepik
Gulf
Madang
Sandaun,
Western (Papua New Guinea)
Coordinates
5°06′S137°42′E / 5.1°S 137.7°E / -5.1; 137.7
Conservation
Conservation status
Vulnerable
Protected
5,833 km² (23%)[1]
The New Guinea mangroves is a mangrove ecoregion that covers extensive areas of the coastline New Guinea, the large island in the western Pacific Ocean north of Australia.
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^Eric Dinerstein, David Olson, et al. (2017). An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm, BioScience, Volume 67, Issue 6, June 2017, Pages 534–545; Supplemental material 2 table S1b. [1]
^"Map of Ecoregions 2017". Resolve. Retrieved August 20, 2021.
^"New Guinea mangroves". Digital Observatory for Protected Areas. Retrieved August 20, 2021.
^"New Guinea mangroves". The Encyclopedia of Earth. Retrieved August 20, 2021.
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