AMAZING LORENTZ NATIONAL PARK

THE MOST ECOLOGICALLY DIVERSE IN THE WORLD

SINCE   HENDRIKUS ALBERTUS LORENTZ  A HOLLAND’S EXPLORER WHO PASS THROUGH THIS AREA IN 1909,  FINALLY  THE PARK KNOWN AS LORENTZ NATIONAL PARK AND DECLARED AS A WORLD HERITAGE SITE BY UNESCO IN 1999.

THIS  PARK  IS LOCATED NEAR TOWN OF WAMENA – WEST PAPUA PROVINCE, INDONESIA HAS A LOT OF VERY RARE SPECIES OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS. ENRICH WITH EQUATORIAL SNOWY HIGH MOUNTAINS  SURROUNDING IT AND A MANY BEAUTIFUL BEACHES AS AMAZING FANCE . 

LORENTZ NATIONAL PARK  IS A ONE OF THE LARGEST NATIONAL PARKS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA AND HAS A VERY NATURAL SCENERY IS ABSOLUTELY STUNNING. 

THIS NATIONAL PARK HAS AN AREA OF 25 156 KM², IS AN OUTSTANDING EXAMPLE OF THE BIODIVERSITY OF PAPUA ISLAND THAT KNOWN AS THE 2nd BIGGEST ISLAND IN THE WORLD AFTER GREENLAND. LORENTZ IS THE ONLY NATURE RESERVE IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION TO CONTAIN A FULL ALTITUDINAL ARRAY OF ECOSYSTEMS RANGING THROUGH MARINE AREAS, MANGROVES, MONTANE RAINFOREST AND LOWLAND , TIDAL AND FRESHWATER SWAMP FOREST , ALPINE TUNDRA, AND  AMAZING EQUATORIAL GLACIERS. AT 4884 METERS, SNOWY PUNCAK JAYA (FORMERLY CARSTENSZ PYRAMID) IS THE TALLEST SUMMIT BETWEEN THE HIMALAYAS AND THE ANDES.

BESIDES HAS A TIDAL SWAMP FORESTS AND FRESHWATER LOWLAND AND MONTANE FORESTS, A TOTAL OF 34 VEGETATION TYPES INCLUDING SWAMP FOREST, RIVERSIDE FORESTS, SAGO AND PEAT FORESTS, CORAL SAND BEACHES, RAIN FOREST LAND FLAT / SLOPE, RAIN FOREST ON THE HILL, HEATH FOREST, MOUNTAIN FORESTS,  LICHENS AND ALSO GRASSLAND PLANT SPECIES IN THE PARK INCLUDE NIPAH (NYPA FRUTICANS ), MANGROVE (RHIZOPHORA APICULATA), PANDAN ( PANDANUS JULIANETTII ), COLOCASIA ESCULENTA, AVICENNIA MARINA, NAUCLEA COADUNATA AND PODOCARPUS PILGERI

NIPAH (NYPA FRUTICANS ) 

BAKAU OR MANGROVE (RHIZOPHORA APICULATA )

PANDAN (PANDANUS JULIANETTII )

LEATHERBACK SEA TURTLE (  DERMOCHELYS CORIACEA )

THE TYPES OF ANIMALS THAT HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED IN THIS WONDER NATIONAL PARK AS MANY AS 630 SPECIES OF BIRDS (± 70% OF THE BIRD  JUST IN PAPUA ISLAND ) , OCEANIC AND FRESH WATER CREATURES INCLUDING FISH , INSECTS AND  MORE THAN 120 SPECIES OF MAMMALS.BIRD SPECIES THAT IS CHARACTERISTIC OF THIS  PARK AREA THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF CASSOWARY, 4 SPECIES OF MEGAPODES,  30 SPECIES OF PARROTS, 13 SPECIES OF BIRDS OF SHRIMP, 29 SPECIES OF BIRDS HONEY, 31 SPECIES OF PIGEON / DOVES AND MORE THAN 18 ENDEMIC SPECIES INCLUDING CENDRAWASIH OR LONG - TAILED BIRD OF PARADISE (PARADIGALLA CARUNEULATA) AND QUAIL SNOW (ANUROPHASIS MONORTHONYX ).

VARIOUS PARROTS

SPECIES OF MAMMALS RECORDED 4 TYPES OF POSSUM , WALLABY OR SMALL KANGAROO, BOBCAT OR KUCING HUTAN, INCLUDING COUSCOUS  0R KUSKUS, TREE KANGAROOS AND ALSO  LONG SNOUT PIG SPINES (ZAGLOSSUS BRUIJNII), PIG SNOUT SHORT SPINES (TACHYGLOSSUS ACULEATUS).

WITH A SUPERB NATURE POTENTIAL, UNSURPRISINGLY IF THIS NATIONAL PARK REFERRED TO THE ONE OF THE  MOST ECOLOGICALLY DIVERSE IN THE WORLD. 

FAMOUS ASMAT ARTWORKS

Amazing melodies of Papuan Heroic Folk Song YAMKO RAMBE YAMKO by SHI LI - SYMPHONIA VIENNA with RAMA WIDI as an Indonesian international Harpist.

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