Gunung Leuser National Park

The National Park Gunung Leuser ( Taman Nasional Gunung Leuser indon. ) is around 9,000 km ² area one of the largest nature reserves in Indonesia. It is located in the north of the island of Sumatra, in the provinces of North Sumatra and Aceh, and is primarily developed for tourism of the city of Medan. Together with the National Parks Kerinchi - Seblat and Barisan Selatan National Park forms the Gunung Leuser the natural monument of the tropical rainforests of Sumatra, which is a UNESCO world heritage site since 2004.

The park offers a quiet retreat for many animal species that are threatened due to the progressive deforestation in Sumatra, where high population growth to large-scale deforestation for the construction of fields, plantations and new settlements leads.

The Sumatran orang- utan, the Sumatran tiger and the Sumatran rhinoceros, all highly endangered species or subspecies, here have one of their largest populations. Overall, about 60 to 80 Sumatran rhinos live in the park, bringing the population to be so in addition to those in the Barisan Selatan National Park, the largest of the entire island and the world. For the Sumatran orangutan Gunung Leuser is the most important refuge. Approximately 75 % of the wild herd live in this area. Other known species occurring here are the Asian Elephant, the Siamang, macaques, langurs, pheasants, hornbills and the saltwater crocodile. The only evidence of rare, only inadequately described Sumatran pheasant originate from this area.

About 70 kilometers northwest of Medan is the " Orang Utan Rehabilitation Center" in Bukit Lawang, on the edge of the national park. Here are reintroduced since 1973 in cooperation with the Frankfurt Zoological freed from captivity orangutans. On 2 November 2003, the Center and the village of Bukit Lawang was severely damaged in a flood. It killed more than 300 people.

Tourism in the National Park is a significant source of income for the region.

Gallery

River Buluh at Tangkahan

Waran and long-tailed macaques in the National Park

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