Taman Nasional Komodo The Real Jurasic Park In Indonesia

Komodo Island is an island located in Nusa Tenggara islands. Komodo Island is known as a habitat for native animals dragons. The island is also the Komodo National Park which is managed by the Central Government. Komodo Island is located east of Sumbawa Island, separated by the Strait of Sape.

On the island of Komodo dragons animals live and breed well. Until August 2009, on the island there are about 1,300 Komodo dragons. Coupled with the other islands, like the island of Rinca and Gili Mota, their numbers totaled about 2500 tails. There are about 100 individuals dragons in Wae Wuul Nature Reserve on the mainland island of Flores but excluding wilayahTaman National Park.

In addition to the Komodo dragon, the island also saves variety of exotic tumbuhan Sepang wood by local people used as medicine and dye clothes, this nitak tree or sterculia oblongata at unbelievable as medicines and seeds are tasty and delicious like peas.

In 1986, UNESCO set Komodo Island and other islands in the Komodo National Park as a world heritage site because of the existence of dragons that can only be found in this region. The habitat of the endangered animals are outdoors with grassland, white sandy beaches and tropical rain forests.

Komodo Island won the award for the New Seven Wonders of Nature which is a tribute to the seven best natural attractions in the world.