The Komodo dragon, the anoa, the babirusa and the bidadari bird are just a few of the species endemic to Wallacea. This zone, covering Sulawesi, Nusa Tenggara, the Malukus and East Timor, is home to about one fifth of plants, birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians and fish native to Indonesia. Estimates put the number of species at no less than 2,071.

Ironically, Wallacea's high biological diversity and endemicitya species that is endemic to a place