Komodo Island is the NEW 7 Wonders of The World

Komodo Island is the NEW 7 Wonders of The World is One of spectaculer places in Indonesia. Komodo Island is the NEW 7 Wonders of The World is inhabited by 1300 Komodo Dragons, there have been since 1901 or during the Dutch colonization. It may be the only island in the world that has a population of 1300 dragons tail. Komodo Island recorded by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as one of the places that are protected.

Komodo Island is the NEW 7 Wonders of The World located in Nusa Tenggara Islands. Komodo Island is known as the natural habitat of Komodo dragons. This island is also as Komodo National Park which managed by the Central Government. Komodo Island in the eastern island of Sumbawa, which are separated by the Sape Strait. On this island, Komodo dragons live and breed well. Coupled with other islands, like the island of Rinca and Gili Motang, their numbers totaled about 2500 tails. There are also approximately 100 individuals dragons in Wae Wull Nature Reserve on the mainland island of Flores, but not including the Komodo National Park.

The most memorable of your tour to Komodo Island is the NEW 7 Wonders of The World or Komodo National Park is that we can watch from nearby dragons activities and other wonders wild animals, on their alone habitat. Different if we visited the zoo, we just to see animals from the prescribed distance. Komodo dragons have long settled in the Komodo island and Rinca Island, two small islands are included in the government of West Manggarai regency.

Komodo Or commonly called Komodo dragons, is the world's wonders and largest lizard species that live on the Komodo island. In 1991, UNESCO confirmed the Komodo dragons as a world heritage in Indonesia. It is undeniable attraction again this giant lizard for world tourism. So it is responsibility for anyone to save Komodo Dragons from extinction. Komodo Island is the NEW 7 Wonders of The World is an opportunity for us to campaign for Komodo as an rare species that must be protected and conserved in the world.

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Komodo Island

Komodo is one of the 17,508 islands that make up the Republic of Indonesia. The island has a surface area of 390 km² and over 2000 inhabitants. The inhabitants of the island are descendants of former convicts who were exiled to the island and who have mixed themselves with the Bugis from Sulawesi. The population are primarily adherents of Islam but there are also Christian and Hindu minorities.

Komodo is part of the Lesser Sunda chain of islands and forms part of the Komodo National Park. Particularly notable here is the native Komodo dragon. In addition, the island is a popular destination for diving. Administratively, it is part of the East Nusa Tenggara province Komodo National Park was established in 1980 and was declared a World Heritage Site and a Man and Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 1986, both indications of the Park's biological importance.

The park was initially established to conserve the unique Komodo Dragon and its habitat, first discovered world in 1910. Since then conservation goals have expanded to protecting its entire biodiversity, both marine and terrestrial.

The majority of the people in and around the Park are fishermen originally from Bima on the island of Sumbawa, and from Manggarai, South Flores, and South Sulawesi. Those from South Sulawesi were originally nomadic and moved from location to location in the region of Sulawesi to make their livelihoods.

Descendents of the original people of Komodo, still live in Komodo, but there are no pure blood people left and their culture and language is slowly being integrated with the recent migrants.

Little is known of the early history of the Komodo islanders. They were subjects of the Sultanate of Bima, although the island’s remoteness from Bima meant its affairs were probably little troubled by the Sultanate other than by occasional demand for tribute.
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