Ecotourism destinations like Tanjung Puting National Park in Indonesia offer experiences for tourists to live on small boats in the jungle and observe wildlife like orangutans up close. Camp Leakey, a rehabilitation center located within the park, cares for ex-captive orangutans. Tourists can reach Camp Leakey by boat and enjoy activities such as viewing proboscis monkeys and the night sky during their visit.
Ecotourism destinations like Tanjung Puting National Park in Indonesia offer experiences for tourists to live on small boats in the jungle and observe wildlife like orangutans up close. Camp Leakey, a rehabilitation center located within the park, cares for ex-captive orangutans. Tourists can reach Camp Leakey by boat and enjoy activities such as viewing proboscis monkeys and the night sky during their visit.
Ecotourism destinations like Tanjung Puting National Park in Indonesia offer experiences for tourists to live on small boats in the jungle and observe wildlife like orangutans up close. Camp Leakey, a rehabilitation center located within the park, cares for ex-captive orangutans. Tourists can reach Camp Leakey by boat and enjoy activities such as viewing proboscis monkeys and the night sky during their visit.
1. Based on the text, can you guess what ecotourism is? Give some examples of other ecotourism destinations.
=Ecotourism is one of the environmental-friendly tourism
activities by prioritizing aspects of nature conservation, aspects of socio-cultural and economic empowerment of local communities as well as aspects of learning and education.
Examples : 1. Taronga Conservation Society Australia
2.Phillip Island Nature Parks 3. Komodo Dragon National Park
2. As one of ecotourism destinations, what does Tanjung
Puting National Park offer to tourists?
= Tanjung Puting National Parks offers an impressive
experience of living in a small boat and going into the jungle, meeting with orang utans, and seeing proboscis monkeys.
3. How is the park different from the parks in cities?
= Parks in cities are man-made. Tanjung Puting National Park
is a jungle.
4. How is Camp Leakey related to Tanjung Puting National
Park?
= because camp leak is located int he heart of Tanjung Puting
National park, and Camp Leaky is a rehabilitation place for Orang Utan that lives around Tanjung Puting N.P. 5. What does the word ex-captive tell you about the orangutans in Camp Leakey, which is a rehabilitation site for orangutans?
= ex-captive is a status given to living things(esp. animals) that
was once captured by humans, before it was set free to their natural habitat.
6. How can people reach Camp Leakey?
= people can reach camp leaky by taking perahu klotok down
Sekonyer river.
7. What is special about the means of transportation to Camp
Leakey.
= the special things about transportation to Camp leaky is
because you can cook, sleep, and eat on that transportation. it also takes you to a path were the view is a natural tropical jungle.
8. What can tourists enjoy during their trip to Camp Leakey?
= In daylight tourists can enjoy proboscis monkeys activies and
at night they can enjoy the clear night sky and the bright stars.
9. What do you think is the most interesting scene in Tanjung
Puting National Park?
=the most interesting scene is when i see the daily feedings to
orangutans at jungle
10. How important is the research by Dr. Birute Galdikas?
= The result of research about orangutans can be used to help
preserve orangutans to protect them from being extinct.