Komodo Island is beautiful and amazing
Komodo Island is beautiful and amazing, who does not know this island? surely everyone knows and almost all had already visited the island of commodity incredible, can say remarkable because of the uniqueness of nature that exist in the island of Komodo, and as the name suggests dragons, dragons are classified as wild animals reptiles cannibals.
Komodo Island is beautiful and amazing, there is a beauty that could attract the attention of the tourists who come and of course, the visitor will not be sorry if it is a visit to the island of Komodo. Komodo Island is located in Nusa Tenggara islands. Komodo Island is known as a habitat for native animals dragons. The island is also the Komodo National Park
Komodo Island is beautiful and amazing there are about 40 million years ago in Asia emerging species of dragons that started with the Varanus genus, which then migrate to Australia. Furthermore, 15 million years ago the giant lizard is moving towards the region now known as Indonesia, Animals dragons have three meters long and weighing 90 kg, is the world's largest lizard species that is now declared as one of the 7 natural wonders of the world.
The beauty of the Park
Komodo National Park was established in 1980 to protect the health of dragons. Not only rare animals, the Park also to protect a wide variety of plants and animals, including marine animals.
UNESCO recognized as a World Heritage Site in 1986. Together with two other large islands, namely Pulau Rinca and Padar, Komodo and some smaller surrounding islands continue to be maintained as the original habitat reptile, dubbed the "Komodo".
Seeing Komodo Island History
Komodo dragon dubbed or Varanus komodoensis or local name "Ora", giant lizards, according to a story first published in 1912 in a national daily the Dutch East Indies. Peter A. Ouwens, director of the Zoological Museum in Bogor is one who has introduced to the world through his paper dragons that. Since then, expeditions and research on this rare species continue to be done, even reportedly inspired the film KingKong in 1933. Recognizing the need for protection against the dragon in the center of human activity on the natural habitat, in 1915 the Dutch government issued a ban on the hunting and killing of dragons.
