National Park Bukit Baka is a conservation area which became a national park located in the heart of Borneo island, exactly on the border between the province of West Kalimantan to Central Kalimantan. The area has an important role in the hydrological function as a catchment area for Melawi Watershed in West Kalimantan and Katingan River Basin in Central Kalimantan.
Bukit Baka forest area is representative of tropical rain forest ecosystem that mendoninasi mountains peaks Schwaner Mountains. Bukit Baka Bukit Nature Reserve is a combination of Baka in West Kalimantan and Nature Reserve Bukit Raya in Central Kalimantan. Determination Area National Park Bukit Baka-Bukit Raya through the Minister of Forestry Decree No. II/1992 281/Kpts-, dated 26 February 1992 an area of 181 090 ha.
Recorded 817 plant species belonging to 139 families such as Dipterocarpaceae, Myrtaceae, Sapotaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Lauraceae, and Ericadeae. There are also medicinal plants, forest orchids, flower Rafflesia (Raflesia sp.) Which is the largest and also the parasitic plant growing on Mount Kinabalu, Malaysia. Endemic plants such as Symplocos rayae, Gluta sabahan, Dillenia beccariana, Lithocarpus coopertus, Selaginnella magnifica, and Tetracera, glaberrima.
Another specialty of the national park of Bukit Baka is the abundance of species such as Symplocos adenophylla Symplocaceae tribe, Symplocos crassipis, Symplocos laeteviridis, Symplocos rayae rubiginosa and Symplocos.
Among the bears, kesadu, raccoons wisel, an orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus), gray langur (Presbytis cristata), black langur (Presbytis malalophos), sailor / red monkey (Presbytis rubicunda), white forehead langur (Presbytis frontata), agile gibbon (Hylobates agilis), kite-kite (Hylobates lar), kelempiau (Hylobates muelleri).
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