Sulu-Celebes Sea 56 Giwa Regional Assessment
The GIWA region 56 Sulu-Celebes (Sulawesi) Sea includes some of the
land and sea areas of three nations; the Philippines, Indonesia (North
Sulawesi and East Kalimantan) and Malaysia (Sabah), and forms part
of the Philippine-Malay Archipelago, which lies at the centre of global
biodiversity. The marine waters of the region form a Large Marine
Ecosystem (LME), bounded on most of its western and northern extent
by the islands of the Philippines and GIWA region 54 South China Sea,
on its southern extent by the Islands of Borneo and Sulawesi and GIWA
region 57 Indonesian Seas and eastern extent by GIWA region 62 Pacifi c
Islands.
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