Identifikasi Lokasi Prioritas Konservasi Pesisir dan Pulau-pulau Kecil di Provinsi Maluku Berdasarkan Konektivitas Darat-Laut

Maluku as an archipego province owns a high biodiversity particularly lays on its coastal areas. Aside from the richness of its biodiversity, the status of Maluku as an archipleago province comes with its own threads, one of them is the safety of these small islands themselves. The existance of the richness of coastal biodiversity and the threads indicate the requirement a protection specifically on its coastal areas and small islands. This effort is in line with the government's target which proposes 20 ha of Kawasan Konservasi Perairan, Pesisir dan Pulau-pulau Kecil in 2020. Conservation areas in Indonesia often ignores the relationship of land-sea, meanwhile the connectivity between the two are highly crutial, in other words, it is important to consider those two elements in creating the conservation areas. This observation has objects to (1) determine the coastal conservation priority area location dan the small islands in Maluku Province based on the spatial distribution of biodiversity with the potential connectivity between land and sea, and (2) review the types of protectable coastal biodiversity in the coastal conservation and small islands priority location in Maluku Province based on potential connectivity between land and sea. This observation applies systematic conservation planning with symmetrical connectivity direction employs Marxan and results in eleven potential priority areas with seven of them yet have conservation areas. These seven areas own mangrove, coral reefs, and/or seagrass considerable as new conservation areas. Keywords : Kawasan Konservasi Pesisir dan Pulau-pulau Kecil, Systematic Conservation Planning, Land-Sea Connectivity