Gunung Leuser national park Aceh Indonesia

Gunung Leuser national park or often abbreviatedwith GLNP is a natural preservation area with an area of more than 1 million acres. The area of theincoming administration's own GLNP in the region 2provinces, namely North Sumatera and Aceh also.Part of the province of Aceh in GLNP which areSouth Aceh, Aceh Barat, Aceh Singkil, Southeast Aceh, Aceh Tamiang Gayo Lues Regency, and.

Meanwhile, the province of North Sumatra in GLNPin Langkat Regency, which was the Karo, and also the Dairi. GLNP is suitable with its name take the name of Mount Leuser is high sell 3404 meters above sea level, the Park includes the originalecosystem of the coast up to the high mountainsthat dense 

forest typical of the tropical rain forest.

The national parks zoning system is administeredbecause it also utilized for the purposes of research, education, science, culture, and tourism support.Gunung Leuser National Park has three main functions, namely as a buffer system of theprotection of life, the benefit of the natural resources, the ecosystem and its biodiversitysustainably, and preserving the diversity of animalsand plants and their ecosystems.

Gunung Leuser National Park

GLNP in the formal juridical existence set out in the announcement of the Minister of agriculture No.811/Kpts/Um/II/1980 on 6 March 1980 relatedinauguration 5 national parks of Indonesia namelyGunung Leuser, TN TN Gede Pangrango, TN. Ujung Kulon, Komodo, and TN. TN Baluran. Based onpengumanan of the Minister of agriculture, was appointed that it broadly GLNP is 792.675 hectares.

The announcement of the Minister of agriculturewas also followed up by mail Directorate of forestryNo. 719/DJ/VII/1/80 on March 7, 1980 and intended for Sub Hall KPA mount Leuser. In the letter it was also mentioned that the management of GLNP is given to the Sub Hall KPA mount Leuser.

Admissibility of the Sumatran rainforest heritage on the list of world heritage sites in 2004 yesterday also makes this National Park are also included in the world heritage site of UNESCO together with Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park and Kerinci SeblatNational Park. As the basis of legality to the process of the inaugural forest area, has already issued a decision regarding the appointment of the Minister of forestry an acre 1.094.692 acre of GLNP in the province of North Sumatra and Aceh.

Based on the decision also mentioned that theGLNP consists of a combined Wildlife mount Leuser,Wildlife Reserve, West of Langkat Kluet, South of 

Langkat, Wildlife Wildlife Wildlife Kappi, Sekundur,protected forest, and Garden Tours grain white rice.

One of the main attraction of this area is GLNP Bukit Lawang Centre observations Sumatran Orangutan.Bukit Lawang is located in the tourist area of Bukit Lawang, Bohorok, Langkat, North Sumatra. Large areas of land which has GLNP easy avalanche.

Gunung Leuser National Park is estimated to have325 species of birds of which is the rhinocerosHornbill. Animals amphibians and reptilesdominated by crocodiles and poisonous snakes.There is also a jurung fish is a fish endemic to the river Pedestal with a length of up to 1 m.