Beautiful Leuser
This rainforest is very natural and keeps the natural charm undeniable. This forest is rich in flora and fauna, including as key habitat of Sumatran rhinoceros, Sumatran tiger, Sumatran elephant, and Sumatran orangutan. These four large mammals live in the same landscape, at Leuser. It is estimated, there are 105 species of mammals, 382 species of birds, and 95 species of reptiles and amphibians that live here.
With its amazing topography, the function of the Leuser ecosystem is so important to support the lives of about four million people living in the surrounding area. Those in Aceh and North Sumatera. The ecological services of this area are estimated to be worth USD 600 million per year and its important functions as flood prevention and erosion, the water supply for agriculture, are so real to everyday life. Its natural beauty can also be developed for tourism.
The area of Gunung Leuser National Park also has a variety of flora such as raflesia arnoldi flowers, raksaksa umbrella, giant rhizanthes zippelnii flowers, and various kinds of tropical fruits such as mango, durian, orange, rambutan, guava, papaya, and also various kinds flora contained in this park lauser mountain park that you can meet and you see here. As well as a variety of protected plants and plants and animals are rare, also exist in the area of Gunung Leuser National Park is.
Gunung Leuser National Park also has a brief history, namely with a researcher in 1920 who is a geologist from the Netherlands, who was doing research and also explore the natural wealth of minerals and oil in Aceh by the Dutch colonial government. The man did not find any mineral deposits, but he found or met with traditional leaders located in the Gunung Leuser Area who wanted the Dutch colonial government to take care of the ecosystems located on Mount Leuser.