Bogani Nani Wartabone National Park, National park in Gorontalo, Indonesia.
Bogani Nani Wartabone is a national park in Gorontalo covering vast forested terrain on the Minahassa Peninsula. The landscape contains dense rainforest with multiple rivers, mountain ranges, and diverse wildlife including rare bird species and mammals such as the maleo bird.
The reserve was first gazetted in 1982 as Dumoga Bone National Park, named after the Dumoga and Bone river basins that bound it west and east, and it combined the Dumoga and Bone game reserves with the Bulawan nature reserve. It was formally established as a national park in 1991 and later renamed for Nani Wartabone, a Gorontalo-born national hero who drove the Japanese from Gorontalo during World War II.
The park's name comes from Nani Wartabone, a national hero from Gorontalo who drove Japanese forces from the city during World War II. The earlier name Dumoga Bone referred to the two river basins, Dumoga in the west and Bone in the east, that frame the reserve. Villagers around the boundary still draw drinking water from these rivers and use the Dumoga flow to irrigate rice fields.
The park is accessed through Manado airport in the region, followed by a drive of roughly three hours to the main entrance near Toraut. Visitors should prepare for humid tropical conditions and bring sturdy footwear for forest trails.
The cinnabar hawk owl was described scientifically only in 1999, from a specimen collected inside this park. The maleo, the park's mascot, is bred here: by February 2012 about 3,300 birds had been released into their habitat, with four breeding sites at Hungoyono camp in Bone Bolango.
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