West Kalimantan: Gunung Palung National Park
Gateway to Gunung Palung National Park
The orangutan is considered the umbrella species for conservation in the area, and is also an important ecological agent for seed dispersal and seed predation. It is believed that orangutans at Gunung Palung constitute one of the most dense and largest populations on Borneo.
Currently, however, their rain forest home is severely threatened, as illegal logging continues at at an alarming speed. Despite its relatively small size, Gunung Palung and the surrounding areas harbor what is thought to be one of the most dense and viable remaining orangutan populations in Kalimantan, and therefore, the world. A new census conducted in 2001, and funded in part by The Orangutan Conservancy, gives an estimate of 2500 individual orangutans - about 17% of the estimated population in Borneo and close to 10% of the world's population.
The Orangutan Conservancy is very optimistic about the work of Cheryl Knott and Tim Laman at the Gunung Palung National Park, located on the western side of Borneo. They are directing the efforts to protect the forest as well as the wild orangutan population. The Orangutan Conservancy considers it a very important effort to support. Since then there has been an exponential increase in the amount of illegal logging within this National Park. This, in conjunction with the recent fires raging across the Indonesian rain forests, made immediate conservation action in this area of paramount importance.
Gunung Palung National Park at West Kalimantan is the famous of it's Forest view and rich wild life, with the Towering dipterocarpus trees, valuable ebony and iron wood trees are scattered throughout. The dense jungle and wide terrain of wetlands have traditionally kept the region isolated from all but the adventurous travelers. Orangutans in the wild habitat, give you a sightful experience of the grand diversity of exotic flora and wildlife.
This 100,000 ha (241,700 acres) park is located on the southwestern coast of Borneo. It is rich in rain forest habitats and plant and animal biodiversity. It has coastal mangrove forest and fresh and brackish water swamp forest, lowland peat swamp forest, various types of lowland forest, submontane and montane forest. Until recently its wildlife populations were undisturbed.
The orangutan is considered the umbrella species for conservation in the area, and is also an important ecological agent for seed dispersal and seed predation. It is believed that orangutans at Gunung Palung constitute one of the most dense and largest populations on Borneo.
Currently, however, their rain forest home is severely threatened, as illegal logging continues at at an alarming speed. Despite its relatively small size, Gunung Palung and the surrounding areas harbor what is thought to be one of the most dense and viable remaining orangutan populations in Kalimantan, and therefore, the world. A new census conducted in 2001, and funded in part by The Orangutan Conservancy, gives an estimate of 2500 individual orangutans - about 17% of the estimated population in Borneo and close to 10% of the world's population.
The Orangutan Conservancy is very optimistic about the work of Cheryl Knott and Tim Laman at the Gunung Palung National Park, located on the western side of Borneo. They are directing the efforts to protect the forest as well as the wild orangutan population. The Orangutan Conservancy considers it a very important effort to support. Since then there has been an exponential increase in the amount of illegal logging within this National Park. This, in conjunction with the recent fires raging across the Indonesian rain forests, made immediate conservation action in this area of paramount importance.
Gunung Palung National Park at West Kalimantan is the famous of it's Forest view and rich wild life, with the Towering dipterocarpus trees, valuable ebony and iron wood trees are scattered throughout. The dense jungle and wide terrain of wetlands have traditionally kept the region isolated from all but the adventurous travelers. Orangutans in the wild habitat, give you a sightful experience of the grand diversity of exotic flora and wildlife.
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