Tropical Rainforest In Sumatra Indonesia
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Tropical rainforest in sumatra indonesia. Some of the worlds most biologically diverse tropical rainforests are located in Indonesia. Harapan rainforest is one of the biodiversity hotspots of the world. The CRC aims at providing information on how to integrate agricultural land use and conservation.
This natural site is 25 million hectare area that is endangered. The UNESCO World Heritage Committee¹ has again voted to keep the Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra TRHS in Indonesia on the List of World Heritage In Danger. The worlds largest archipelago Indonesia consists of almost 18000 islands spanning between the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
There are individually known as the Gunung Leuser National Park the Kerinci Seblat National Park and the Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park and together they cover 25000 km2 of rainforest. Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra. Sumatra together with nearby Borneo contains some of the last and largest remnants of Indonesias spectacular forests the third largest rainforests in the world.
It has three parks. The Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra site was recorded as an UNESCO World Heritage site in 2004. Gunung Leuser National Park.
It is a serial site encompassing three of the islands largest national parks. Importantly Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park BBSNP is one of only three sites left on the island recognized by UNESCO to represent the Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra. Indonesias Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra is located along the mountain spine that runs down the western side of the vast Indonesian island of Sumatra.
Gunung Leuser National Park Kerinci Seblat National Park and Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park. Kerinci Seblat National Park. It is implemented in one of the largest regions of tropical lowland rainforest in Southeast Asia Jambi Province in Sumatra Indonesia.