Southern New Guinea lowland rain forests

Southern New Guinea lowland rain forests
Southern New Guinea lowland rain forests
	Lorentz National Park, Papua, Indonesia
	Ecoregion territory (in purple)
Ecology
Realm	Australasian realm
Biome	tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
Borders	List Central Range montane rain forests; New Guinea mangroves; Southeastern Papuan rain forests,; Southern New Guinea freshwater swamp forests; Trans-Fly savanna and grasslands;
Geography
Area	122,335 km2 (47,234 sq mi)
Countries	Indonesia; Papua New Guinea;
Provinces	Papua (Indonesia); Gulf; Southern Highlands,; Western (Papua New Guinea);
Coordinates	6°06′S 140°12′E / 6.1°S 140.2°E
Conservation
Conservation status	Critical/endangered
Protected	5,841 km2 (5%)

The Southern New Guinea lowland rain forests is a tropical moist forest ecoregion in southeastern New Guinea. The ecoregion covers portions of New Guinea's southern lowlands.^[2]^[3]^[4]

^ Eric Dinerstein, David Olson, et al. (2017). An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm, BioScience, Volume 67, Issue 6, June 2017, Pages 534–545; Supplemental material 2 table S1b. [1]
^ "Map of Ecoregions 2017". Resolve. Retrieved August 20, 2021.
^ "Southern New Guinea lowland rain forests". Digital Observatory for Protected Areas. Retrieved August 20, 2021.
^ "Southern New Guinea lowland rain forests". The Encyclopedia of Earth. Retrieved August 20, 2021.