NATIONAL PARK : NORTH SUMATRA
Batang Gadis National Park Initiative
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| Lubuk Larangan |
Unlike other national parks, Batang Gadis
National Park designation (TNBG) initiated by the District Government of Mandailing Natal (Madina). This initiative is inseparable from the desire, encouragement and support from local people, community leaders and non-governmental organizations environmental field who wish to save the remaining natural forests and relatively intact in the province of North Sumatra in order to bring benefits) long numbers for local communities and local government. Establishment of new protected areas in Sumatra, the more important given the island's natural forests in the situation of concern, because of unsustainable use of forests and forest mismanagement in the past.
