Tanjung Puting National Park- The Best Place To See The Adventure Of Indonesia

The Tanjung Puting located in the peninsula of the world third largest rainforest, Borneo. The Park consists of 300.040 hectares of the land for the natural habitat of the wild animals in the Tanjung Puting National Park. The main purpose of developing the park is for giving the protection to the orangutans during the year 1936-37. Then later it was upgraded as the National park in the year 1982. This is the only protected area in the South East Asia for giving the protection of the endangered species living in the world. The some of the types of lands in the Park are lowland, wetlands, swamp forests, and the mature tropical heath forests. This type of lands is essential for the animals in the Park for providing the breeding grounds living with the animals. Apart from the living of the endangered species like the orangutans, it also has the natural habitat for more than 400 species trees, which are essential for the living of the orangutans. You can see the orangutans as the king of the Park, where it holds the largest and the oldest orangutans lived in the Park. The Camp Leakey is situated at the depth of the Tanjung Puting National Park, where some of the rescued and orphaned orangutans get preserved and protected by the park members.

The Tanjung Puting is the Fort of the orangutans, where it includes the scenery of the rivers and trees which makes the Park as the romantic atmosphere for the visitors and to the animals. The some of the physical features of the Park are Organosol, Laterite, Glei humus and the pillow-red Podsolic. The Park is located above the surface of the water level and the climatic classification of the place has the rainfall of 2400 mm throughout the year. The most commonly found trees in the Park are Ramin, Meranti, Jelutung, Keruing, and Kayu Basi, which has the high market in the industry. The some other trees in the riverbeds of the Park are Nipah and the Pandans.

The Camp Leakey in the Park was developed in the year 1971 by the Louis Leakey. In the memory of the Louis Leakey, it is named as the Camp Leakey. It can be act as a rehabilitation center for the orangutans and the several animals of the Park. The Camp Leakey provides the best nature to the researches for doing the research about the lives and environment of the orangutans. The tourists are permitted to visit the Park, but they have to be staying away from the research works of the scientists and the students. On the river beds near to the Camp Leakey, you can occasionally see the reptiles and the crocodiles for the surviving in the river. The some other animal resources rather than the orangutans in the Park are Proboscis monkeys, long tail monkeys, horn bills, myna, and the large monkey. The some of the fauna occasionally seen in the park are Malayan sun bear, Estuarine Crocodile, Wild Lige, red leaf monkey, Gray Gribbon, and the Agile Gibbon.

Donald Pinch is an expert writer in the Tanjung Puting for so many years now and has the best knowledge on Camp Leakey to come up with something useful every time.

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