North Sulawesi Volcanoes Explorer: TRANS SULAWESI TOUR

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

TRANS SULAWESI TOUR

15 days 14 nights
Start from Manado to Gorontalo, and from Gorontalo sail to Togian islands, snorkeling and sightseeing in Bajau villages in Togian, after Togian sail to Ampana and from Ampana drive to Tana Toraja. Enjoy the culture, customs, Art, The Ancient heritage, and the spectacular panorama of Toraja Land. After Toraja drive to Sengkang, enjoy the silk worm weavery and floating bugisness houses. After Sengkang drive to Bira, snorkeling and see the traditional phinisi boat. After Bira drive to Makassar see the fort of Rotterdam, sunset at Losari beach . End of Tour

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WORLD OCEAN CONFERENCE 2009

Manado, 11 - 15 May 2009 .....A high level conference of heads of states which have coastal and marine territories, eminent people and stakeholders (scientists, NGOs, Journalists, private sectors) discussing global ocean issues.
International agreements and conventions are important and have been adequately accepted. However, there is a lack of political willingness to drive forward and further implement such agreement.
WOC' 09 will provide a platform where world leaders and stakeholders will convene to make commitments for sustainable development of marine resources.
Given the fact that Indonesia is the largest archipelagic country and possesses the highest marine biodiversity in the world, the conference will strengthen Indonesia's participation in the regional and International forum.
Gradual degradation of marine and fishery resources has been related to over-fishing, pollution and climate change.
Global efforts to stop this trend are urgently required.

COELACANTH (Latimeria Manadoensis)

Coelacanth is the only existing primitive fish species and belongs to the order of coelacanthiformes. Based on fossil record, coelacanth first appeared on earth ~360 million years ago during the" great age of fish" in the paleozoicum era, 100 million year before the birth of dinosaurus in the jurassic period. Coelacanth was previously thought to be extinct since 65 million years ago until a living specimen was netted off in the East London water, South Africa in 1938. The fish was recognized as a living fossil and named Latimeria Chalumnae . The finding was dubbed as the greatest zoological discovery of the 20th century.
In 1997, a coelacanth was incidentally encountered by atourist couple in a traditional market in Manado, North Sulawesi. This species is different from it's South African relative with an estimated divergence time between the two of ~30-40 million years ago, named Latimeria Manadoensis and called "king of the sea" (ikan Raja Laut) by the locals. In 1998 and 2007, two coelacanth were unintentionally caught alive by local fishermen in Manado bay. Today they have become very important specimens for science. Research in the last three years using ROV ( Remotely Operated Vehicle ) has recorded seven individuals of coelacanth in the Sulawesi Sea