Tropical Rainforest Heritage Of Sumatra Animals

Gunung Leuser National Park.

Tropical rainforest heritage of sumatra animals. Sumatran tigers are the last remaining subspecies of tiger in Indonesia with the Bali Tiger going extinct in the 1930s and the Javan tiger in the 1970s. The Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra is a mountainous landscape of exceptional beauty which forests hold many endangered species including the endemic Sumatran orang-utan. It is estimated that the Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra sites hold 10000 species of plants including oddities like the enormous Rafflesia the largest flower on Earth.

There has been natural disasters that have effected the rainforest including earthquakes and rarely tsunamis. The world heritage site covers an area that has been an. Kerinci Seblat National Park.

Gunung Leuser National Park Kerinci Seblat National Park and Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park. For being home to the last surviving Sumatran Tiger Rhino and Elephant the largest flower on Earth the greatest volcano in Indonesia the highest lake in Southeast Asia and some of the most significant ethnic minorities on Earth Bukit Barisan truly. The site holds the greatest potential for long term conservation of the distinctive and diverse biota of Sumatra including many endangered species.

One of the last and largest remnants of tropical rainforest in Asia is under threat from multiple road development plans. Since 2011 the unesco also lists this world heritage as world heritage in danger. There are a number of forests in this landscape that hold many species including the endemic Sumatran orangutan Whitten et.

Covering up to 7927 km2 and straddling the border of North Sumatra and Aceh provinces it is one of the last places on earth with critically endangered orangutans living in the wild. Gunung Leuser National Park is a tropical rainforest heritage of Sumatra. Gunung Leuser GLNP Kerinci Seblat KSNP and Bukit Barisan Selatan BBSNP are all located on the prominent main spine of the Bukit Barisan Mountains known as the Andes of Sumatra.

The Sumatran Tropical Rainforest Heritage Gunung Leuser National Park is one of the richest tropical rainforests in Southeast Asia. Gunung Leuser National Park Kerinci Seblat National Park and the Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park. Lana 2 Orangutan Monkey pictures Primates Entered on the list of world heritage in danger due to the ongoing degradation of kerinci seblat national park at first then to the ongoing degradation of all three sites.