Baluran National Park

Baluran National Park as technical field authority unit under Directorate General of Forest Protection and Nature Conservation. Declared by Ministry of Forestry on May 12th 1984 number 196/Kpts-II/1984 and base on Director Geral of Forest Protection and Nature Conservation decided on December 1984 number 46/Kpts/VI-Sek/1984, the area pervades three major areas namely, Baluran National Park Banyuwangi Wild Reserve and Kawah Ijen Nature Reserve.

The effort designation area of Baluran to wild life reserve was tought by Botanical garden office in Bogor since in the year of 1928, this idea supported by AH. LEDEBOER intuitive, a Dutch who colonized the area by then. In 1937 Baluran was defined as wild life reserve declared by Govermental of Indonesia Indie in 1937 (Governing decree in 1937 number 544). The purpose of becoming wild life reserve is to protec endangered wild life from its disaappearance. When the day of Word Wild Life Strategy conference was held in 1980 then Minister of Agriculture declared that Baluran to become National Park.

Flora and Fauna : Baluran National Park is one of area in Java which has natural savannah, it is about 10.000 hectare or 40 % from the total area. The area has comlete ecosystem namely Mangove, coastal forest as well as plateau and low land.
The endemic flora is Widoro Bekol (Zyzyphus rotundifolia) the others are asam (Tamarindus indica), gadung (Dioscorea hispida), pilang (Acacia leucophloea), kemiri (Aleuritas mollucana), kepuh (Sterculia foetida), walikukun (Schoutenia ovata), mimbo (Azadirachta indica), kesambi (Schleicera oleosa), lontar (Borassus sp).

Inside the area there are 147 bird species, the endangered big mamals is Walet ekor jarum (Hirundapus caudacutus). The endangered big mamals is Banteng (Bos Javanicus) and ajag (Cuon Alpinus) that can still bee seen at Baluran. Other significant fauna are wild pig (Sus sp), kijang (Muntiacus muntjak), rusa (Cervus timorensis), macan tutul (Felis pardus), kerbau liar (Bubalus bubalis), lutung (Presbytis cristata), kera abu-abu (Macaca fascicularis), merak (Pavomuticus) and ayam hutan (Gallus sp).
Source : nationalpark.na.funpic.org