Gunung Palung National Park

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Gunung Palung National Park
Vegetation in Gunung Palung National Park
Vegetation in Gunung Palung National Park
Gunung Palung National Park (Indonesia)
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Coordinates: 1 ° 14 ′ 24 ″  S , 110 ° 14 ′ 21 ″  E
Location: Kalimantan Barat , Indonesia
Surface: 900 km²
Founding: 1990
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The Gunung Palung National Park is a 900 km² large national park in the Indonesian province of West Kalimantan on Borneo , north of Ketapang and east of Sukadana .

history

Gunung Palung was placed under protection in 1937 as a nature reserve with an area of ​​300 km². In 1981 the reserve was expanded to 900 km² and its status was converted into a game reserve. On March 24, 1990, the area was declared a national park.

Flora and fauna

The park is characterized by the diversity of its fauna (including orangutans ) and different habitat types, from mangroves and freshwater swamp forest to lowland floodplain forest to mountain forest . A 2001 census estimated the orangutan population at 2500 animals, which corresponds to 17% of the estimated population on Borneo and almost 10% of the world population.

research

In 1985, Dr. Mark Leighton sets up the Cabang Panti Research Camp in the national park at the western foot of the Gunung Palung Mountains, which is operated by the park administration. The area of ​​the research station covers over 2,100 hectares, which is made accessible by 25 km of paths and covers all seven forest types including the upper mountain forest. After a short period of vacancy from 2004 to 2007, the research station was rebuilt in 2007 with funds from two research teams from the USA . Projects are the Gunung Palung Orangutan Project and the Gibbons and Leaf Monkey Project.

protection

Illegal logging and peat forest fires pose a threat to the national park.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Endriatmo Soetarto, MT Felix Sitorus, M. Yusup Napiri (Center for International Forestry Research): Decentralization of Administration, Policy Making and Forest Management in Ketapang District, West Kalimantan . CIFOR, 2001, ISBN 978-979-8764-85-1 , p. 42.

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