UjungKulon National Park is one of the Forests Conservation in Indonesia
UjungKulon Tours creates the eco green activities in the conservation area, to be altogether watch cooperate with Indonesian Government. UjungKulon National Park covers an area of 122.956 hectare, which are 78.619 hectare's land and 44.337 hectare ocean. The Forest and Volnaoes become part of the conservation Park. The area is located in Sumur District of Pandeglang Regency, part of Banten province in Indonesia. It once included the volcanic island group of Krakatoa in Lampung province.
The area has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site for "containing the largest remaining area of lowland rainforests in Java", and also for possessing the most threatened species of rhino, the Javan rhino. It was designated before its formation as a national park.
The park fully encompasses the Ujung Kulon peninsula, along with surrounding islands and the Gunung Honje mountain range.
Ujung Kulon is one of three national parks in Java housing a lowland rainforest ecosystem, together with Baluran and Alas Purwo National Park. It therefore possesses a somewhat similar ecosystem, despite being much wetter than the latter due to the Köppen-Geiger climate classification, the latter being found on East Java instead.
FLORA
175 species have been observed within the park, with 57 of them being protected, This includes mangroves (e.g. Sonneratia alba, Excoecaria agallocha, Rhizophora apiculata, Aegiceras corniculatum), coastal plants (e.g. Nypa fruticans, Calophyllum inophyllum, Terminalia catappa, Hibiscus tiliaceus, etc.), Figs (e.g. Ficus benjamina, Ficus deltoidea, Ficus racemosa, Ficus septica) and other lowland vegetation such as Oroxylum indicum, Melastoma malabathricum, Sterculia foetida, and Durio zibethinus. The park possesses three protected rare flora, namely Heritiera percoriacea, Vatica bantamensis, and Intsia bijuga. Rafflesia patma is also a notable species
FAUNA
Roughly 35 mammals species endemic to Java are found in the park, notably the banteng, silvery gibbon, Javan lutung, crab-eating macaque, Javan leopard, dhole, Java mouse-deer, Javan rusa, Sunda leopard cat and smooth-coated otter. There are 197 species of birds.
The Javan rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus), Javan rhino, Sunda rhinoceros or lesser one-horned rhinoceros is a critically endangered member of the genus Rhinoceros, of the rhinoceros family, Rhinocerotidae, and one of the five remaining extant rhinoceros species across South Asia and Africa. The Javan rhinoceros is one of the smallest rhinoceros species, along with the Sumatran, or "hairy", rhinoceros. They are superficially similar to Indian rhinos, as they have plate-like, "armored" protective skin folds, but are slightly smaller, at just 3.1–3.2 m (10–10 ft) long and 1.4–1.7 m (4 ft 7 in – 5 ft 7 in) tall, on average. The heaviest specimens weigh around 2,300 kg (5,100 lb), similar to a black rhinoceros.
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