Teluk Balikpapan (Balikpapan Bay)

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Arief Rahman Saan (Ezagren)

Balikpapan Bay stretches roughly 120 kilometers of shoreline, much of it lined with mangrove forest, and is one of the only places on Earth where you can realistically hope to see the Irrawaddy dolphin and the dugong in the same stretch of water. It sits just south of Nusantara's own territory, administratively part of Kota Balikpapan, and its mangrove forests are part of the same ecological network the capital's own master plan is designed to protect.

Irrawaddy Dolphin (Pesut Mahakam)
Stefan Brending

Irrawaddy Dolphin (Pesut Mahakam)

Orcaella brevirostris

Endangered
Dugong
Kris-Mikael Krister

Dugong

Dugong dugon

Vulnerable
Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin
A.m.iqro

Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin

Tursiops aduncus

Near Threatened
Finless Porpoise
ori2uru

Finless Porpoise

Neophocaena phocaenoides

Vulnerable
Saltwater Crocodile
Crisco 1492

Saltwater Crocodile

Crocodylus porosus

Least Concern
Green Turtle
Brocken Inaglory

Green Turtle

Chelonia mydas

Endangered
Smooth-Coated Otter
Nils

Smooth-Coated Otter

Lutrogale perspicillata

Vulnerable
Proboscis Monkey
Charles J. Sharp

Proboscis Monkey

Nasalis larvatus

Endangered
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