Stretching from deep in the Amazon rainforest into the foothills of the Andes Mountain range, the world's newest national park, Sierra del Divisor, is a beautiful and impressive site, home to rugged landscapes and unique wildlife. The Peruvian park is also massive: it spans 1.3 million hectares, reports Amusing Planet, making it larger than both Yosemite and Yellowstone National parks combined.

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Located in eastern Peru along the country’s border with Brazil, the Sierra Del Divisor is one of the greatest refuges for biodiversity on earth, according to Rainforest Trust, home to over 3,000 species of plants and animals including primates, jaguars and tapirs. In fact, it home to the highest levels of primate diversity in the western Amazon, according to an expedition by the Chicago Field Museum.  Many of the wildlife species are also endemic to the area, found nowhere else on earth.

Sierra Del Divisor National is also home to uncontacted, indigenous tribes, such as the Iskonowa, that live isolated from the outside world, and has been called “lungs of the world” by Peru President Ollanta Humala because it is the second-biggest storehouse of above-ground carbon in Peru.

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The new national park in Peru was formed by presidential decree on November 8, 2015, after a nine-year push involving the Rainforest Trust and other nonprofit organizations to protect this vast region of virtually untouched jungle. The new park status will mean stiffer legal penalties for illegal logging, mining and drug trafficking inside the park, according to Peru Reports, and help protect the wildlife biodiversity from unregulated commercial fishing, hunting and poaching.

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