Amazing lorentz national park Birds Photography

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 parkand declared as a world heritage site by unesco in 1999.

This  park  is located near town of wamena – west papua provinceindonesia 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 forestssago and peat forestscoral sand beachesrain forest land flat / sloperain forest on the hillheath forest, mountain forests,  lichens and also grassland plant species in the park include nipah (nypa fruticans ), mangrove (rhizophora apiculata), pandan ( pandanus julianettii ), colocasia esculentaavicennia marinanauclea coadunata and podocarpus pilgeri

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