Tanjung Puting National Park

Tanjung Puting National Park
Location:	Kalimantan Tengah , Indonesia
Surface:	4.150 km²
Founding:	1982
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The Tanjung Puting is located in the Indonesian province of Central Kalimantan , in the south of the island of Borneo . The national park goes back to two game reserves that were founded by the Dutch colonial government in the 1930s and merged in 1978 to form the 305,000 hectare Tanjung Puting Wildlife Reserve . This reserve was converted into a national park in 1982 with the help of the environmentalist Birutė Galdikas . In 1977 it was declared a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO . In 1996 the park was expanded to its current size of 4150 km².

Flora and fauna

The national park protects around 6000 orangutans , making it one of the most excellent refuges for this species in the world. They are threatened by palm oil plantations. The endangered proboscis monkey is also present there.

Individual evidence

Web links

Commons : Tanjung Puting National Park - Collection of images, videos and audio files

[Orang-Utans_in_Not-1] Orangutans in Not eV ( Memento from November 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

[2] Ministry of Forestry: Tanjung Puting National Park ( Memento of December 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (English)

[3] UNESCO: The List of UNESCO Biosphere Reserves

[4] Frankfurter Rundschau: Palm oil plantations threaten orangutans , January 29, 2009

[5] Ryan Ver Berkmoes, Celeste Brash, Muhammad Cohen, Mark Elliott, Guyan Mitra, John Noble, Adam Skolnick, Iain Stewart, Steve Waters Lonely Planet Indonesia (p. 614)

[6] Frankfurter Rundschau: Palm oil plantations threaten orangutans , January 29, 2009

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[8] Ryan Ver Berkmoes, Celeste Brash, Muhammad Cohen, Mark Elliott, Guyan Mitra, John Noble, Adam Skolnick, Iain Stewart, Steve Waters Lonely Planet Indonesia (p. 614)