Rawa Aopa Watumohai National Park

Rawa Aopa Watumohai National Park
Coordinates: 4 ° 23 ′ 39 ″  S , 121 ° 59 ′ 31 ″  E
Location:	Sulawesi Tenggara , Indonesia
Surface:	1050 km²
Founding:	1989

The Rawa Aopa Watumohai National Park is an approximately 1,050 km² national park in the Sulawesi Tenggara Province , Indonesia . The national park was established in 1989. It ranges from sea level to a height of 981 m. The National Park contains the Aopa - peat bog , the largest on Sulawesi and is recognized as a wetland of international importance.

Flora and fauna

The vegetation varies over submontane rainforests, mangrove forests, coastal forests, savannas and freshwater swamp forests. 323 plant species have been registered in the national park, including Borassus flabellifer , Bruguiera gymnorrhiza , Callicarpa celebica , Cratoxylum formosum and Metrosideros petiolata .

The national park is home to Sulawesi buck boar , lowland anoa , mountain anoa and 155 species of birds, 37 of which are endemic to Sulawesi. Birds in the national park are hammer-grouse , sunda marabou , wool-necked stork , collar-leash , yellow-crested cockatoo , accipiter rhodogaster , manada- dove and collar-dove . The park also provides habitat for a population of 170 of the endangered milk storks . Primates in the national park are the Sulawesi Koboldmakis and the gray arm macaques .

The park also protects 11 species of reptiles and 20 species of fish and is an important nursery area for crabs, fish and shrimp.

Human settlement

The area of ​​the park was traditionally inhabited by the Moronen . During the Dutch colonial era there were seven villages in the area of ​​today's national park. In the 1950s, many Moronene villagers moved to other parts of the island, but there has been re-migration since the 1970s. However, the local authorities doubted that the returnees were moronene and have rights to the land. Therefore, after the national park was declared, several attempts were made by the local authorities to evict the people from the park. In 1997 the security forces burned 175 houses and the following year another 88 houses. In a third intervention in 2001, another 100 houses were destroyed. Threats to the park include illegal logging, poaching, and egg collecting.

Web links

• Official website of the national park
• List of species in the national park

Individual evidence

1. ↑ UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List: Wakatobi National Park , Retrieved July 23, 2010
2. ↑ Ministry of Forestry of Indonesia: "Rawa Aopa Watumohai National Park" ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Retrieved December 5, 2013 
3. ^ ASEAN: "Site Nomination for Peat Site Profiles in Southeast Asia," Retrieved December 5, 2013
4. ↑ Down to Earth: "Moronene people forced out of national park" , February 2001