Tesso Nilo National Park

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area = 385.76 km²
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Tesso Nilo National Park is a National Park in Riau Province, Sumatra, Indonesia. It was declared a National Park by the Indonesian government in 2004. [cite web
url=http://www.cepf.net/xp/cepf/news/newsletter/2004/august_topstory.xml
title= Indonesia Declares Tesso Nilo National Park
accessdate=2007-09-30] The area of the park is 385 km², but the decision has been made to expand it by 1000 km². [cite web
url=http://www.wwf.or.id/index.php?fuseaction=news.detail&language=e&id=NWS1149748519
title=Government Announces Expansion of Tesso Nilo National Park to Ensure Room for Sumatran Elephants
publisher=WWF
accessdate=2007-09-30] Tesso Nilo National Park houses the largest coherent rainforests on Sumatra.

Endangered Sumatran elephants and critically endangered Sumatran tigers live here. The park suffers heavy encroachment from illegal loggers and illegal settlers who clear the park for crops and palm oil plantations, as well as village sites. Wood was delivered illegally to Indah Kiat paper mill. The paper industry firm that owns the paper mill received millions of US$ from European credit agencies, including the German Hermes. In May 2006, Indonesian officials agreed to expand the 330 km² park to 1,000 km², but have yet to make good on the promise.

In October 2006, fires burnt down 1 km² of the park. [cite news|title=Unhealthy aor quality may last for a few weeks|author=Tan, Tania|work=The Straits Times|page=1|publisher=Singapore Press Holdings]

ee also

*List of national parks of Indonesia
*Geography of Indonesia
*2006 Southeast Asian haze

References

Links

* [http://www.unep-wcmc.org/wdpa/sitedetails.cfm?siteid=317197&level=nat Record from World Database on Protected Areas]
* [http://www.wwf.or.id/tessonilo/ Tesso Nilo page from WWF Indonesia]