National Park Gunung Palung located on the island of Borneo. Borneo Island is the largest island in Asia and ranks third among the largest islands in the world. Indonesian version of the name of the island - Kalimantan.

National Park Gunung Palung located in the province of East Kalimantan, near the city of Ketapang. The history of the national park begins in 1937, when its territory is 300 square kilometers in completely forested, it was declared a protected area. In 1981, the territory of the reserve has expanded and reached 900 square kilometers, and the Reserve granted the status of "Wildlife". And in March 1990, it became a national park reserve.

The park covers and mangroves (evergreen deciduous forests distributed in the tropics or in the growing band of sea coasts), and swamp forests. Visitors can enjoy the beauty and primeval mountain forests. National Park is the only one of the few parks in the world, which has kind of wood apes - orangutans. In 1994, a project was launched to study this species of monkeys. In 1985 the national park was established a research station for more thorough study of the biology of forests of Borneo. In 2007, the center had carried out repair work. At one time the park was illegal logging, the government is actively fighting the problem, and illegal logging should be severely punished.