GENERAL INFORMATION
Tanjung Puting National Park is located on the central Kalimantan province of Indonesia, famous for its orang utan rehabilitation center and their natural habitat. It is consisting of 415,040 hectares of dry land and dipterocarp forest, peat swamforest, heath forest, mangrove and costal beach forest, and secondary forest.
Despite being a protected national park, approximately 65% of the park’s primary forest is degraded. It is the lost of natural habitat that is the greatest threat to the wildlife. Friends of National Park foundation is an Indonesian NGO that has been working to restore the habitation int he pasalat and Beguruh regions of the park since 1997. It is also operate a conservation education center in Pasalat.For research center have been established within the park for the study and rehabilitation of orang utans and other mirates. Camp Leakey, founded in 1971 with assistance from the leakey foundation, was the first of these centers. It was here where Dr.Birute Galdikas began her career studying the behaviour of rescued and ophaned orangutans that were reintroduced into the wild. Her research was highlighted as the cover article of National Geographic in October 1975. Dr. Galdikas is now considered one of the world’s leading experts on orangutan behavior and is the founder and president of the Orang Utan Foundation International.
ECOLOGY
Tanjung Putting National Park was set aside in the 1930 by the Dutch colonial government for the protection of the Orang Utans and Proboscis monkey, and was designated as a UNESCO BIOSPHERE RESERVE in 1977 and a national park in 1982
In addition to Orang Utans and Proboscis monkeys, the park is also home to gibbons, macagues, clouded leopards, sun bears, wild boars, porcupines, and Sambar deer. The national park also features many reptiles, include crocodiles, monitor lizards, and phytons, birds including hornbills and kingfishers, and insects such as the giant Bornean butterfly. The Pondok Ambung Tropical forest research station was established in 2005 for the study of all wild life species found in the park.
Nowadays, Tanjung Putting National Park is a popular ecotourism destination, with many local tour operator offering multidays boat tours to view wildlife and visit the research centers. The Park was a home of 105.000 people of 1997. The par was heavily damaged by the fires in 1997 and 1998, and today remains threatened by illegal logging, illegal mining, and forest clearing for agricultural uses.
Orangutans are one of the most popular wild animal in this national park and orang-utans is possible for the Orangutan Conservation Research Program based at Camp Leakey research station. In addition to enjoying the fresh air around this park, you can also learn more about how to protect endangered species from the island of Borneo. Support large populations of various species of animals, Tanjung Putting National Park became one of the most important areas in Southeast Asia for the conservation of primates, birds, reptiles and fish. In this national park has eight monkeys including bekantan with the typical long nose. Or you can also see the crocodiles. And a variety of colors and the melodious chirping of the 220 species of birds
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