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BHS Fact Sheet 2006
The Bird’s Head Seascape sits at the epicenter of the so-called “Coral Triangle” region. It is located in northwest Papua, Indonesia, stretching from Teluk Cenderawasih in its
eastern reaches to the Raja Ampat archipelago in the west and the FakFak-Kaimana coastline to the south. Covering a combined area of over 180,000 km² and more than
2500 islands and submerged reefs, the Seascape is home to over 1,200 species of coral reef fishes and nearly 600 species of scleractinian hard coral (approximately 75 percent of the world’s total)—the highest coral reef biodiversity recorded for an area of this size anywhere in the world.
eastern reaches to the Raja Ampat archipelago in the west and the FakFak-Kaimana coastline to the south. Covering a combined area of over 180,000 km² and more than
2500 islands and submerged reefs, the Seascape is home to over 1,200 species of coral reef fishes and nearly 600 species of scleractinian hard coral (approximately 75 percent of the world’s total)—the highest coral reef biodiversity recorded for an area of this size anywhere in the world.
