Vote Komodo Island as new 7 Wonders of nature

Today, the PKA Komodo National Park and PT. Putri Naga Komodo are working togetherto protect the Park's the vast resources. Our goals are to protect the Park's biodiversity(both marine and terrestrial) and the breeding stocks of commercial fishes forreplenishment of Surrounding fishing grounds. The main challenge is to Reduced Boththreats to the resources and conflicts the between incompatible activities. Both partieshave a long term commitment to protecting the marine biodiversity of Komodo NationalPark.

Komodo Island is located on the westernmost tip of East Nusa Tenggara province, which borders West Nusa Tenggara Province. Precisely in the District of Komodo, West Manggarai regency, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. Since 1980, an area of ​​1817 km2National Park is made ​​by the Government of Indonesia, which was then recognized as aUNESCO World Heritage Site in 1986. Together with two other large islands, the island ofRinca and Padar, Komodo Island and several small islands around it continues to be maintained as a habitat for native reptiles, dubbed the "Komodo Dragon".

Varanus komodoensis bears the Latin name and local name "Ora", giant lizard according to a story first published in 1912 on national daily Dutch East Indies. Peter A. Ouwens,director of the Zoological Museum on Bogor is a person who has been introduced to the world through his paper dragons that. Since then, expeditions and research on endangered species continue to be done, even reportedly had inspired the film Gameloft in 1933.Recognizing the need for protection against the dragon in the center of human activity in their natural habitat that, in 1915 the Dutch government issued a ban on hunting and killingdragons.

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