Bukit Tigapuluh National Park

Bukit Tigapuluh National Park

Bukit Tigapuluh National Park - The Thirty Hills - is a 143,223 hectare National Park in eastern Sumatra, consisting primarily of tropical lowland forest, largely in Riau province, with a smaller part of 33,000 ha in Jambi province. It is famous as one of the last refuges of endangered species such as the Sumatran Orangutan, Sumatran tiger, Sumatran elephant, Sumatran rhinoceros and Asian tapir, as well as many endangered bird species. It forms part of the Tesso Nilo Complex biodiversity hotspot. The Park is inhabited by the indigenous peoples of the Orang Rimba and Talang Mamak tribes.
The Park itself has been under consistent threat from illegal logging and palm oil plantations, with two thirds of the park logged.
According to a 1994 survey Bukit Tigapuluh National Park has 59 species of mammal, 6 species of primate, 198 species of bird, 18 species of bat and various species of butterfly. Mammals include Sumatran Orangutan, Sumatran tiger, Sumatran elephant, Sumatran rhinoceros, Asian tapir, Sun bear, Siamang, Crab-eating Macaque, Sumatran Surili, Sunda Loris, Clouded Leopard, Leopard Cat, Marbled Cat, Malayan Civet, Indian Muntjac, Sumatran Serow and Java Mouse-deer.
Bird species include: Great Argus, Little Green-pigeon, White-rumped Shama, White-bellied Woodpecker, Crested Serpent-eagle, Hill Myna, Helmeted Hornbill, Wrinkled Hornbill, White-winged Wood Duck, Storm's Stork, Garnet Pitta and Grey-breasted Babbler.

The Park also has an hydrology of the Kuantan

important role in protecting the Indragiri watershed.

The Park has been under consistent threat from illegal logging and palm oil plantations, with two thirds of the park logged. Surrounding buffer zones and wildlife corridors are diminishing, with 30,000 hectares, the largest area of forest remaining outside the Park, released in May 2009 by the Indonesian government for logging, with the licence granted to a joint venture company involving Asia Pulp & Paper/Sinar Mas Group, to clear the largest area of forest outside the Park.

In 2002 the Batu Mbelin completed near Medan in North

orangutan quarantine center was Sumatra.

In January 2003 orangutans were transferred to Bukit Tigapuluh National Park from the Batu Mbelin orangutan quarantine centre under the auspices of the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme, and reintroduced shortly after. Since then, over 190 orangutans have been treated at the quarantine center and over 125 of these have already been transferred to Bukit Tigapuluh for reintroduction. At least 3 infants have also been born to reintroduced mothers, these infants being the 1st to be conceived and born in the forests of Jambi possibly for more than 100 years.
Camera traps set up in the Bukit Tigapuluh forest in March and April 2011 by the World Wildlife Fund have taken images of 12 rare Sumatran Tigers, including a mother playing with cubs. Subsequently the organisation intensified its campaign against the planned logging of the area. Although the Indonesian government has agreed in 2010 to implement a 2-years moratorium on new forest clearance, the presidential regulation that imposes the moratorium was only signed in May 2011. None of the Bukit Tigapuluh landscape is covered by the moratorium and Asia Pulp & Paper plans to clear large areas of the forest.
In November 2011, the WWF has announced 5 endangered cats in the forests of Riau. Within 3 months of systematic survey using automatic surveillance cameras at the 'corridor' between the Bukit Tigapuluh National Park and Rimbang Baling Sanctuary, they found Sumatran Tiger, Sunda Clouded Leopard (Neofelis diardi), Marbled Cat (Pardofelis marmoata). Golden Cat (Catopurna temmincki, and Leopard Cat (Prionailurus bengalensis). The cats passing the same tracks all the time in the 'corridor', but both areas connected by 'corridor' are currently threatened by deforestation.

Related Sites for Bukit Tigapuluh National Park

• Bukit Tigapuluh National Park - Sumatran Tiger Trust read Bukit Tigapuluh National Park
• National Parks in Indonesia: Bukit Tigapuluh read Bukit Tigapuluh National Park
• Under Voice: Wonders And Beauty Of Indonesia & World read Bukit Tigapuluh National Park
• Bukit Tigapuluh National Park - WARSI read Bukit Tigapuluh National Park