Current view: Text account
Site description (1999 baseline):
Site location and context
This area consist of Gunung Gede (2958 m) which is an active volcano and Gunung Pangrango (3019 m). These 2 mountains linked by a flat ridge with 2400 m elevation. The last eruption of Gunung Gede was in 1948. This area is one of the wetest area in Java.
Non-bird biodiversity: Panthera pardus, Hylobates moloch, Presbytis comata and Trachypithecus auratus (Nijman & Sozer 1995, Anon 1996, Hedges & Tyson 1996, Whitten et.al. 1996, Nijman 1997).
Lower mountain forest, upper mountain rainforest, subalpin forest subalpin grassland and mountain crater (Anon 1996).
Pressure/threats to key biodiversity
Tourists, deforestation, wildlife hunting and forest conversion for plantation (MacKinnon
et.al. 1982)
15196 ha of this area declared as National Park on 6 March 1980 (Hartarti
et.al. 1994, Anon 1997).
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Gunung Gede - Pangrango (Indonesia). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/gunung-gede--pangrango-iba-indonesia on 23/12/2024.
