There are more tigers in this park than in all of Nepal, and more than in China, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam combined. The Kerinci Seblat National Park holds the highest population of tigers on Sumatra, estimated to be between 165-190 individuals, and also has the highest occupancy rate, with over 83% of the park showing signs of tigers. Don’t forget to print it out and take it with you when you trek into the National Park! What follows are just a few of the creatures that you might encounter. Credits to the Kerinci Seblat National Park. For a more complete bird and mammal list (in English and local languages) click here. ![]() To see a few of the creatures I’ve personally been lucky enough to photograph in and around the National Park, check out my Project Noah page here. Part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra, the Kerinci Seblat National Park has a wide variety of geological features and landscapes – from volcanoes and cloud forests, to marshes and lowlands, hot springs to waterfalls to lakes, Kerinci is diverse in every way. That’s a lot of room for some of the world’s most beautiful plant and animal species to flourish! The National Park is also one of twenty Global Priority Tiger Conservation Landscapes. To put this in perspective, the park is 2.5x the size of Bali and has more protected forest than in all of Costa Rica. It is the largest national park on Sumatra and, at 13,791 square kilometers, one of the largest protected areas in all of South East Asia. ![]() The Kerinci Seblat National Park covers a large section of the Bukit Barisan mountain range, running through the provinces of West Sumatra, Jambi, Bengkulu, and South Sumatra.
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