Komodo island and komodo national park

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 kawasanTaman managed by the Central Government. Komodo Island is located east of the island of Sumbawa, separated by Sape Strait.

Administratively, this island including the District of Komodo, West Manggarai, East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia. Komodo Island is the westernmost tip of East Nusa Tenggara 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 an estimated 1300 dragons tail. Coupled with the other islands, such as the island of Rinca and Gili and Motang, their number totaled about 2500 birds. There are approximately 100 individuals in the Nature Reserve komodo mainland Wae Wuul island in Flores but not including the Komodo National Park.

In addition to the Komodo dragon, the island also holds a variety of exotic flora sepangyang wood by local people used as a medicinal and dye clothing, tree or Sterculia oblongata nitak is believed to be useful as medicines and seeds are tasty and delicious like peas.

Komodo Island is also accepted as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, as in Komodo National Park area, along with the island of Rinca, Padar and Gili Island Motang.

History of komodo island

In 1910 the Dutch named the island in the southern province of East Nusa Tenggara is the nickname of the island of Komodo. This story begins with Lieutenant Steyn van Hens Broek, a Dutch army tried to prove statements about the existence of a large animal like a dragon on the island. Steyn then kill a dragon and bring documentation to the Museum and Botanical Garden in Bogor to be investigated.

In 2009, the Park has been named a finalist "New Seven Wonders of Nature" newly published in 2010 by online voting at www.N7W.com.Pada on 11 November 2011, the New 7 Wonders has been announced as the winner, and National Parks Komodo into the ranks of the winners along with, Amazon Forest, Halong Bay, Iguazu Falls, Jeju Island, Puerto Princesa Underground River, and Table Mountain. the Komodo National Park to get the most votes

KOMODO NATIONAL PARK

Park is a breeding insitu used to protect an endangered species. One example is the Komodo National Park. In the park there is a highly protected species from extinction. Komodo has long been a highly protected animals, is due to the few who still live on this earth. These animals exist only on the islands of Flores, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. While most of the island was inhabited by this animal is called the island of Komodo. Animal that resembles a large lizard was listed endangered animals with a population less than 4,000 birds. Then in 1980 has agreed to establish a conservation area in the form on the island of Komodo National Park and several other small islands around it.

Beginning of the history of the discovery of dragons originated from the documentation that are in the Zoological Museum Bogor conducted by the Dutch with a witch-hunt on the island of Komodo. Research results are then published in 1912. Not much later the news was quickly challenged Komodo spread throughout the world. They conducted a scientific expedition to conduct research on the island of Komodo. Here is the data from Loh Liang, Komodo history:

·         Komodo 1911 discovery by Van Steyn J.K.H

·         1912 Providing scientific name Varanus komodoensis by PA Owens

·         SK 1912. Sultan of Bima on the protection of Komodo

·         SK 1926. Komodo Manggarai local government protection

·         SK 1930. Komodo Flores resident protection

·         Komodo 1931 Listed on the absolutely protected wildlife in the wildlife protection laws

·         Wildlife Sanctuary Establishment 1938 P. Rinca and P.Padar

·         1965 Formation Wildlife Refuge P. Komodo

·         1980 Establishment of the Park

·         1991 Appointment as a world natural heritage by UNESCO

·         Komodo 1992 as a national wildlife Presidential Decree 4 of 1992

In 2000, the leadership of the Park plan approved by the Directorate General of Forest Protection and Nature Conservation. The Nature Conservancy (TNC), private institutions are the biggest environmental community in the United States, and the merchants who came from Malaysia, Feisol Hashim, will master the Park for 25 years. They want to protect the local environment by the tourism that will be corrected.

Komodo National Park includes three major islands: Komodo, Rinca and Padar, as well as numerous smaller islands creating a total surface area (marine and land) of 1817km (proposed extensions would bring the total surface area up to 2,321km²). As well as being home to the Komodo dragon, the Park provides refuge for many other  notable terrestrial species such as the orange-footed scrub fowl, an endemic rat, and the Timor deer. Moreover, the Park includes one of the richest marine environments including coral reefs, mangroves, seagrass beds, seamounts, and semi-enclosed bays. These habitats harbor more than 1,000 species of fish, some 260 species of reef-building coral, and 70 species of sponges. Dugong, sharks, manta rays, at least 14 species of whales, dolphins, and sea turtles also make Komodo National Park their home.

Threats to terrestrial biodiversity include the increasing pressure on forest cover and water resources as the local human population has increased 800% over the past 60 years. In addition, the Timor deer population, the preferred prey source for the endangered Komodo dragon, is still being poached. Destructive fishing practices such as dynamite-, cyanide, and compressor fishing severely threaten the Park's marine resources by destroying both the habitat (coral reefs) and the resource itself (fish and invertebrate stocks). The present situation in the Park is characterized by reduced but continuing destructive fishing practices primarily by immigrant fishers, and high pressure on demersal stocks like lobsters, shellfish, groupers and napoleon wrasse. Pollution inputs, ranging from raw sewage to chemicals, are increasing and may pose a major threat in the future.

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