Tesso Nilo National Park, Riau - Indonesia

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Tesso Nilo National Park was officially inaugurated on July 19th 2004, with 38.576 Hectares width. Tesso Nilo is the biggest low land forest in Sumatera, and habitat for about 3% species of mammals in the world. a single hectare of this national park consists of 360 flora, divided into 165 genus and 57 family, 107 species of birds, 23 species of mammals, 3 species of primates, 50 species of birds, 15 species of reptiles and 18 species of amphibians. this national park is one of the low land forest that serves as conversation and habitat for about 60 – 80 elephants. visitors can explore the forest while sitting on elephant, or joining the flying squad patrol. visitors who want to experience adrenaline raising may directly herd wild elephants back to their habitat. also there are many sumateran tiger`s tracks or other animals` tracks, such as tapirs, bears, bobcats, etc.


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Tesso Nilo National Park Map