Way Kambas: Tigers, Elephants, Rhinos
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
WAY Kambas National Park covers 125,000 hectares and consists of freshwater swamp and grassy plains on both sides of the Way Kambas River on the east coast of Lampung province near the southern tip of the island. Containing one of Indonesia’s last remaining lowland rainforests, no point in the park is more than 100 meters above sea level.
Due to lax law enforcement, the area was intensively logged before becoming a reserve in 1972. Only about
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