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Habitats of Indonesia

Seasonal forest & savanna

Open hills, wooded patches and seasonal contrasts.

Open hills and coastal bays at Gili Lawa in the Komodo island landscape.
Open hills and coastal bays at Gili Lawa in the Komodo island landscape.Photo: Stepgun · Original photograph · CC BY-SA 4.0. Full image retained; thumbnails may be cropped. Photographs do not establish snake occurrence.

Understanding the environment

A sense of the habitat.

Indonesia includes strongly seasonal landscapes as well as rainforest. In the Komodo area, savanna and deciduous monsoon forest create a vegetation mosaic. This is one Lesser Sunda example, not a description of every island in the chain.

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Exposure and grassland

Open hills

Open grassy slopes expose the shape of the hills. In the Komodo landscape, broad open areas sit beside sheltered bays and patches of woody vegetation.

Compare the exposed ridgelines with the more sheltered valleys.

Conceptual habitat structure, not a measured transect or a species range.

Indonesian examples.

UNESCO describes dry savanna, monsoon forest and coastal environments within the Komodo property. The linked occurrence pages distinguish Komodo from Flores, Sumbawa and Timor rather than spreading one island record across the chain.

Conservation context

What matters here?

Maintaining the local vegetation mosaic requires site-specific management evidence. This guide does not prescribe burning or clearing and does not assign a uniform threat trend to all Lesser Sunda islands.

Sources: UNESCO — Komodo National Park ·

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These links lead to regional collections. A species in a regional list is not automatically confirmed in this habitat or in a named national park.

Lesser Sundas

Seasonal island landscapes between Lombok and Timor.

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Checked 7 October 2026

Evidence & sources.

  1. UNESCO — Komodo National Park

    Dry vegetation and coastal ecosystems; not species-level habitat evidence.

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Rainforest-covered Mugajah ridges, Aceh, Sumatra.
Habitat · 01

Rainforest layers

Follow a forest from its crowns to the living ground.

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Forest around Lake Gunung Tujuh, Kerinci Seblat National Park, Sumatra.
Habitat · 02

Montane forest

Forested ridges, mountain lakes and changes along a slope.

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The lake landscape of Danau Sentarum, West Kalimantan.
Habitat · 03

Freshwater & peat swamps

Read lakes, floodplains and waterlogged forest separately.

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Mangrove forest at Benoa, Bali.
Habitat · 04

Mangroves & estuaries

The wooded, tidal boundary between land and sea.

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Open hills and coastal bays at Gili Lawa in the Komodo island landscape.
Habitat · 05

Coasts, seagrass & reefs

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