The Togean island group(Kepulaun Togean area an archipelago of 56 islands and inlets, located in the Tomini bay just south of Gorontalo, North Sulawesi and is a 100,000 ha proposed marine reserve.

The islands are not volcanic and sit on a plateau no deeper than 200m.On land there a re also interesting animals to see like many rare birds (Hornbill, Parrots) and other animals such as; Babi Rusa (endemic wild pig), Macaque Togeana (endemic species of monkey for Togean island).The reefs and larges coastal mangrove areas are habitat and breeding areas hawksbill turtle, the green turtle and the dugong.

1995 some scientists discovered that a few marine species occur nowhere else in Indonesia, for example 3 endemic coral species. The Tomini gulf is cut off from the primary ocean currents than run north south on either side of Sulawesi.