Sulawesi Montane Rain Forests

The Sulawesi montane rain forests are a tropical moist forest ecoregion in Indonesia that covers the highlands of Sulawesi, roughly 40 percent of the island's land area, above the surrounding Sulawesi lowland rain forests. The island is mountainous and its highest peak, Mount Latimojong, reaches 3,478 meters. The climate is wet tropical montane, and the vegetation climbs from lower montane rain forest dominated by trees of the beech family, through mid and upper montane forest with conifers such as Agathis and Podocarpus and abundant mosses above 2,000 meters, to sub-alpine shrubland above 3,200 meters. The ecoregion supports 102 mammal species, a third of them endemic or near-endemic, and is one of only two places that hold the Dian's tarsier and the pygmy tarsier. About 12 percent of it is protected, including Lore Lindu National Park.