Bukit Baka_Bukit Raya National Park

 endangered species habitat, nature conservation park / area, national park

Bukit Baka-Bukit Raya National Park is a conservation area that became a national park located in the heart of Borneo island, precisely on the border between the provinces of West Kalimantan to Central Kalimantan. The area has an important role in hydrological functions as a catchment area for Melawi River Basin in West Kalimantan and Katingan River Basin in Central Kalimantan.
The forest area of Bukit Baka-Bukit Raya is representative of tropical rain forest ecosystem types that dominated the peaks at Schwaner Mountains. Bukit Baka-Bukit Raya is a combination of Baka Hill Nature Reserve in West Kalimantan, Bukit Raya and Nature Reserve in Central Kalimantan. It covers an area of 181,090 ha.
It preserved about 817 plant species belonging to 139 families such as Dipterocarpaceae, Myrtaceae, Sapotaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Lauraceae, and Ericadeae. There are also medicinal plants, forest orchids, flower Rafflesia (Raflesia sp.) which is the largest parasitic plants and also grows on Mount Kinabalu, Malaysia. Endemic plants such as Symplocos rayae, Gluta sabahan, Dillenia beccariana, Lithocarpus coopertus, Selaginnella magnifica, and Tetracera, glaberrima. Other privileges of the national parks of Bukit Baka-Bukit Raya is the abundance of the types of tribes such as Symplocos adenophylla Symplocaceae, crassipis Symplocos, Symplocos laeteviridis, rayae and Symplocos Symplocos rubiginosa.

The park have varieties of animal, such as bears, kesadu, weasels WISEL, an orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus), gray langur (Presbytis cristata), black langur (Presbytis melalophos), sailor / red monkey (Presbytis rubicunda), white forehead langur (Presbytis frontata), agile gibbon gibbons (Hylobates albibarbis), and kelempiau (Hylobates muelleri).
Barbourula kalimantanensis, one Indonesian native frog and recently became the attention of researchers and amphibians in the world because of new species discovered [in photo].


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