Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An island of south-central Indonesia in the Lesser Sunda Islands south of Flores. First visited by Europeans in 1522, it passed to the Dutch in 1866.
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In his fifties, the former Kenyan nightclub manager now lives on Sumba, an Indonesian island that's about an hour flight from Bali and which is home to over a half million impoverished people who live in thousands of scattered villages.
Anna David: The Surfer Who Became a Hotelier Who Became a Humanitarian Anna David 2011
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Today, the Sumba Foundation takes in about $500,000 annually, strictly from donations from the 750-odd guests that stay at Nihiwatu every year.
Anna David: The Surfer Who Became a Hotelier Who Became a Humanitarian Anna David 2011
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Today, the Sumba Foundation takes in about $500,000 annually, strictly from donations from the 750-odd guests that stay at Nihiwatu every year.
Anna David: The Surfer Who Became a Hotelier Who Became a Humanitarian Anna David 2011
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With all of this in mind, he sat down and started working on a 20-year business plan for the Sumba Foundation.
Anna David: The Surfer Who Became a Hotelier Who Became a Humanitarian Anna David 2011
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In his fifties, the former Kenyan nightclub manager now lives on Sumba, an Indonesian island that's about an hour flight from Bali and which is home to over a half million impoverished people who live in thousands of scattered villages.
Anna David: The Surfer Who Became a Hotelier Who Became a Humanitarian Anna David 2011
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With all of this in mind, he sat down and started working on a 20-year business plan for the Sumba Foundation.
Anna David: The Surfer Who Became a Hotelier Who Became a Humanitarian Anna David 2011
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As a result of forest clearance and repeated burning for grazing and agriculture, the forested area of Sumba has declined significantly over the last century.
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Precipitation in Sumba is seasonal, and based on the Köppen climate zone system, this ecoregion falls in the tropical dry climate zone.
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Four of these species are considered vulnerable: Sumba buttonquail (Turnix everetti), red-naped fruit-dove (Ptilinopus dohertyi), Sumba boobook (Ninox rudolfi), and Sumba hornbill (Aceros everetti).
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Sumba is believed to be a fragment of the Australian continental crust that was separated some 20 million years ago, well before the neighboring outer arc island of Timor.
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