We Indonesians citizen must pride that one of tourist asset in our country has been selected as one of nomination of Seven Modern Wonders of the world replace Borobudur temple namely Komodo island, eliminating Krakatau mountain and Toba lake. Eventhough it is still as nomination, we all hope that it stands a chance to win the nomination, we can support the polling by online, besides Indonesia has more than 220 million population, it is one of the great opportunity than other country. Komodo island is selected because this island is performed naturally and preserved by surrounding people.
As you know Komodo island is located in the most western tip of East Nusa Tenggara province, bordered by West Nusa Tenggara province. Administratively this island includes the district of Komodo,
We all know that why the island is called Komodo island, of course since the island is a habitat for native animals Komodo Dragon (Varanos Komodansis) and the local resident call the animal as Ora. Indonesian people especially local resident considers this animal as a source of pride because of the local income from the tourist who visit the island. In this island we see one of the most popular Komodo lizard species in the world with an average body length reach up 3.13 metres and weigh reach 165 kg. Although we can this animal directly, the travelers must be carefull with this animal because it is wild carnivore, it has death poison and high speed to catch its prey fast, that’s why we must keep away of this animal. But, don’t worry because some guards of this park has applied warnind in some places in the park.
Komodo dragon is one of the rare animals in our country even in the world. Some people suggest that this animal is one of evolution of Dinosour, that’s why government, private institution as well as local resident have responsibility to presetve the exist of this animal. Thus, to protect the komodo dragon from extinction, in 1980 the government has renovated komodo island as
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