Hunstein Mountains

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Hunstein Mountains
Highest peak Mount Samsai ( 1544  m )
location Papua New Guinea
Hunstein Mountains (Papua New Guinea)
Hunstein Mountains
Coordinates 4 ° 31 '  S , 142 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 4 ° 31 '  S , 142 ° 43'  E
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The Hunstein Mountains is a mountain range in the province of East Sepik in Papua New Guinea . It is located south of the upper reaches of the Sepik , between the April River in the west, the Korosemeri River in the south and the Chambri Lakes in the east. In the district capital Ambunti , the northern foothills of the Hunstein Mountains, the Washkuk Hills, extend over the Sepik River.

The highest point of the Hunstein Mountains is Mount Samsai with a height of 1544 m. Mount Hunstein is 1141 m high.

The Hunstein Mountains are largely covered with one of the last intact tropical rainforests in the world. It is home to a wide variety of animal and plant species, including hornbills , cassowaries , crowned pigeons, and birds of paradise . The Hunstein Mountains area could be included in the UNESCO World Heritage List as part of the Upper Sepik River Basin . The catchment area of ​​the Upper Sepik has been on Papua New Guinea's list of proposals ( tentative list ) for World Heritage since 2006

In 1997 the Hunstein Range Wildlife Management Area (Hunstein Range WMA) was founded on an area of ​​220,000 ha . According to the categorization of the International Union for Conservation of Nature IUCN , it is a resource protection area with management according to IUCN Category VI. Including the 48,000 hectares of the adjacent Wildlife Management Areas Uma and Me'ha, this is Papua New Guinea's largest rainforest reserve. The Hunstein Range WMA was founded to protect the Bahinemo clan. One reason for the formation of the WMA was the fear of the Bahinemo that the millipede bush spirit (masalai), who according to their religious ideas lives in the higher regions of Mount Samsai, could be disturbed by mining and logging. The statutes of the WMA prohibit harassing this and other masalai in the area of ​​the WMA as well as hunting older pigs and big foot fowls .

The Hunstein Mountains were named in 1887 by Carl Schrader after the German ornithologist and plant collector Carl Hunstein .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heiner Wesemann: Papua New Guinea, Culture - Landscape . In: DuMont documents . DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1985, ISBN 3-7701-1322-5 , p. 254 .
  2. Mount Hunstein - Papua New Guinea indexmundi.com
  3. UNESCO World Heritage Upper Sepik River Basin UNESCO, Tentative Lists
  4. WWF Uma and Me'ha Wildlife Management Areas panda.org
  5. Nigel Dudley, Liza Higgins-Zogib, Stephanie Mansourian: Linking faiths and protected areas to support biodiversity conservation. In: Arguments for Protection Wide Fund for Nature.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Gland 2005, ISBN 2-88085-270-6 .@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.wwf.dk  
  6. ^ Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon (1920), Volume 2, p. 84 Hunstein Mountains on uni-frankfurt.de

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