Indonesia is one of them and is home to the Tesso Nilo National Park. This national park is home to some of the largest lowland rainforests still found in Sumatra. The Indonesian government declared it a national park in 2004 and the decision was made to expand this park to over 621 miles of spacious area where park habitats can live. This national park was created to protect its wildlife, elephants and Sumatran tigers, but it is also home to thousands of orangutans who have come to reside here. Without this forest these animals could not survive. The park must not only deal with the farmers who legally plant palm trees, but it must also deal with the illegal oil palm plantations that are occurring within the Tesso Nilo forest complex. Between 2002 and April 2011 it emerged that the invasion process of this park is still ongoing. The peaks of these invasions show that from 2006 to 2009 the increase in invasions was from 14,164 hectares to 16,305 hectares (Palming
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