Siberut, The Asian Galapagos

Although the administrative region of the Mentawai Islands were included in the Province of West Sumatra, Lo scattered four small islands in the Mentawai Strait is separated from the mainland of Sumatra Island. Located 155 kilometers from the west coast of Sumatra, Mentawai Islands, an isolated since the mid-Pleistocene era, about 500,000 to one million years ago. Isolation is precisely the "merit" to produce unique unusual endemic to the natural wealth in these islands.
Siberut is the largest island in the Mentawai, an area of 4030 square kilometers. In it, the majority of Mentawai natives still live in harmony with nature, to continue old traditions long time ago. Forest is their home. Dense canopy of primary forest that covered 60 percent of the island is their roof. More than that, Siberut has endemic species or species that typically exceeds the number of species jumlahmya entire endemikdi Sumatra. Thanks to this unique, Siberut dubbed "The Asian Galapagos". You should precisely if the forest area which has the status of Siberut National Park since 1993 has become one of the last forests, biosphere Reserves, which should be saved and preserved.