Research Center for Plant Conservation and Botanic Gardens
Abstract
Batam Botanic Garden is a relatively new botanic garden in Indonesia that is assisted by and under collaboration with Bogor Botanic Garden. Recently, a team of Bogor Botanic Garden and Research Center for Biology?LIPI conducted flora exploration in Riau Archipelago, particularly on Karimun Island, Sugi Island and the surrounding areas. The aim of this exploration is to inventory the flora diversity in Riau Archipelago and to enrich living collection of the Batam Botanic Garden. Based on the data gathered from this inventory, we recommend 20 selected plant species with significant conservation value to be targeted for and included in the living collections of Batam Botanic Garden. Five of them (Aquilaria malaccensis, Ceriops decandra, Hopea ferruginea, Pterocarpus indicus and Vatica hullettii) need more attention to be conserved due to their IUCN red list status
