Lore Lindo Park needs more funds

PALU, Central Sulawesi: Central Sulawesi is seeking additional funds to finance projects in Lore Lindo National Park.

"We only receive Rp 900 million annually from the government to fund our activities here," the head of the park, Banjar Yulianto, was quoted as saying on Wednesday by Antara.

The budget is only enough to cover rehabilitation projects and the salaries of our forest rangers, he said. He did not say how much money the park was seeking.

The 217,991-hectare park is located in the regencies of Donggala and Poso.

Banjar said the national park had become one of most attractive sites for foreign researchers in the last several years. However, he regretted that most of the researchers did not send the park a final copy of their work.

He said that beginning this year researchers working in the park would be required to submit copies of their completed studies. (prb)