Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park

The Barisan Selatan is a National Park on Sumatra with a total area of ​​356,800 hectares. Together with the National Park Gunung Leuser national park and the Kerinchi - Seblat he was admitted in 2004 next to the Natural Park of Gunung Leuser and Kerinchi - Seblat as an important example of the tropical rain forest of Sumatra in the list of UNESCO World Natural Heritage. The Barisan Selatan is part of Sumatra from north to south passing through the mountain range - the Barisan Mountains ( indon.: Bukit Bariasan )

Flora and Fauna

In this reserve you come to the still relatively untouched flora and fauna of South Sumatra. The fertility of the volcanic soil and the climate of the entire island humideste form the basis of a species-rich vegetation. For example, one finds the Titan Arum ( Amorphophallus titanum ). The park is home to many birds and especially of threatened mammal species such as the Sumatran elephant ( about 500 animals), the striped Sumatran Rabbit, and the Sumatran rhino, with an estimated population of about 70 copies and the Sumatran tiger with one half as large population. In addition, numerous other partly threatened large animal species such as clouded leopards, tapirs, sambar deer, Indian muntjac, wild boar, siamang and gibbons occur.

Protection of the park

The park was initially founded as a refuge for wildlife in 1935 and expanded in 1982 to the National Park. Due to illegal agriculture, the park lost last 20 % of the forest, so that the conservation organization WWF came to his aid. The WWF found that more than 450 km ² of park area was used for coffee cultivation purposes. Today, the organization works in concert with the global orientation of coffee producers ( including the Nestlé ) advised not to purchase illegally grown coffee.