Papua is one of the islands ‘wealth’ is incredible. One of them is Raja Ampat Islands, about 50 miles from Sorong, which is one of the 10 best diving in the waters around the world. Might even be recognized as the number one for the completeness of underwater flora and fauna.
Raja Ampat Regency, a division of Sorong 
regency at the end of 2003. Raja Ampat regency has an area of 881 953 square km, with 4 island size, ie Waigeo, Batanta, Salawati, and Misool. Currently District. Raja Ampat consists of 24 districts and 120 villages. Raja Ampat Regency is located in the heart of the world’s coral triangle (Coral Triangle) and is the center of the richest tropical marine biodiversity in the world today.
The islands are located in the westernmost main island of Papua – Indonesia. marine life expert, Dr. John Veron in his analysis over the past two weeks, found 450 species of coral identified as typical of the Four Kings Islands, found nowhere else, of the 540 species of coral animals (75% of the species as a whole in the world), 699 mollusks and 1104 species of reef fish (reef fish), along with coral reefs, seagrass beds, mangrove forests and a pleasant beach, rocky cliffs. Some coral reefs are very well preserved, covering nearly ninety percent of the Kofiau Islands, Islands and Island Southeast Misool Wayag. Coral reefs have survived even if there are out of the water and direct sunlight. Yes, King of the Four Islands is where the potential for ecotourism, and has been proposed as a ‘World Heritage Sites of potential concern’ by the Government – Indonesia.
There are some unique species, the Dwarf Seahorse (pigmy seahorse), and Manta Ray Wobbegong (stingray), as well as Gobbie fish, fish in Raja Ampat. If we dive at Cape Kri or Chicken Reef, we can dive with the fish ribah and sometimes docile Manta Ray. Often there are fish to swim and fish Tuna Barracuda. Actually, if the wild fish Barracuda not clustered, but the Barracuda became wild when a solitary fish swim alone. Manta Ray, a kind of stingrays, which are benign and can be invited to ‘swim’ with the fish Gobbie of these islands.
Pygmy seahorses are native pygmy seahorses archipelagic waters, King of the Four This is a very unique animal, a male seahorses is raising his son. If the female seahorses is laying eggs, the females lay eggs in the bag male seahorses, and when it’s time to hatch, their children raised by a male seahorses. Thus, the egg sac has a male who is not female.
Such as coral reefs, sea grass meadow there is a lot there, what else on the island and the island Dorehkar Ayau, a flowering plant that has been adapted entirely below sea level. If the sea receded, can be up to 2 km and you can fish, small octopus and sea cacing2 food craze that is resident in Papua.
Seagrass meadow in the shape of the seabed that are affordable and often there is daylight between ecosystems mangroves and coral reefs. Seagrass habitat for a wide range of fish and prawns as well as a place for turtles to breed. Hopefully, Papua’s natural wealth is to survive as the conservation of the world of the world
Scientific knowledge applied with compassion
