Flora And Fauna

Clove and nutmeg are most grown in the North Maluku, since these island produced spices (mostly cloves) since ancient times. These spices were an ingredient in ancient Egyptian embalming process. The Chinese used it as a kind of breadth sweeteners cinnamon, sago palm, local orchids, matowa wood, and also gufasa wood is grown every where in this region. Bird, like the double tailed, and racket tailed king fisher, the giant red crested cockatoo, orange crested cockatoo, parakeets, the gong-bird. Bacan monkey, lizards, cuscus, variety of butterflies, oysters and canary crabs.