History
Around 1928, Dutch hunter A.H. Loedeboer had a plantation concession area in Labuhan Merak and Gunung Mesigit. He noticed that Baluran has an important role in large herbivore conservation. In 1930, K.W. Dammerman, director of Bogor Botanical Garden, proposed that Baluran should become a protected forest. On 25 September 1937 the Governor General of the Dutch East Indies established Baluran as a Wildlife Preservation Area. It was re-established as such by the Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs on 11 May 1962. On 6 March 1980, on the occasion of the World Strategic Conservation Day, it was declared a National Park by the Minister of Agriculture.
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