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| Komodo ( Dragon) Island |
Komodo Island is an island located in the Nusa Tenggara Islands. Komodo Island is known as a habitat for native animals dragons. The island is also the Komodo National Park which is managed by the Central Government. Komodo Island is located east of Sumbawa Island, separated by the Sape Strait.
Administratively, this island including the District of Komodo, West Manggarai regency, East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia. Komodo Island is the westernmost tip of Nusa Tenggara Timur province, bordering the province of West Nusa Tenggara.
On the island of Komodo dragons animals live and breed well. Until August 2009, on this island there are about 1,300 dragons. Coupled with the other islands, like the island of Rinca and Gili Mota, their numbers totaled about 2500 tails. There are also about 100 individuals dragons in Wae Wuul Nature Reserve on the mainland island of Flores but not including the Komodo National Park.
In addition to the Komodo dragon, the island also store the variety of exotic flora Sepang wood by local people used as medicine and dye clothing, tree nitak or sterculia oblongata in believe are useful as medicines and seeds are tasty and delicious like peas.
Komodo island is also accepted as a world heritage by UNESCO world heritage site.
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| Komodo (Dragon) |
History
In 1910 the Dutch named the island on the south side of East Nusa Tenggara Province is the nickname of Komodo Island. This story begins with Lieutenant Steyn van Hens Broek who tries to prove statements about the presence of Dutch troops large animal resembling a dragon on the island. Steyn then killed a Komodo dragon and bring documentation to the Museum and Botanical Garden in Bogor to be investigated.
In 2009, the Park has been named a finalist of the "New Seven Wonders of Nature".
You can do a lot of activities there, ranging from research to visit or vacation travel. As a tourist spot is also used for nature conservation. All that is in the island of Komodo maintained and preserved from extinction. Indonesia has a lot of the island and its natural beauty. Has a lot of beautiful places became a tourist destination abroad.
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| Big Komodo |
Komodo (Dragon)
Komodo, or more so-called Komodo dragons (Varanus komodoensis), is the world's largest lizard species that live on the island of Komodo, Rinca, Flores, Gili Mota, and Gili Dasami in Nusa Tenggara. This iguana by the natives of Komodo island is also known by local names ora.
Including family members Varanidae lizard, and klad Toxicofera, dragons are the largest lizards in the world, with an average length of 2-3 meters. Large size is associated with symptoms of island gigantism, the tendency for body great giant certain animals that live on a small island linked to the absence of carnivorous mammals on the island where dragons live, and the rate of metabolism of small dragons. Because of his body, lizards occupying a top predator that dominates the ecosystem in which they live.
Her body is great and terrible reputation makes them popular in zoos. Habitat Komodo dragons in the wild has dwindled due to human activities and therefore IUCN enter the dragons as a species vulnerable to extinction. This large monitor lizards are protected under Indonesian law and a national park, the Kruger National Park, established to protect them.
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