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 located in the Komodo National Park which is managed by the Central Government. Komodo Island in the eastern island of Sumbawa, which are separated by the Sape Strait.
Administratively, this island including the District of Komodo, West Manggarai regency, East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia. Komodo Island is the most western tip of Nusa Tenggara Timur province, bordering the province of West Nusa Tenggara.
Arrive in Komodo National Park, the first thing we should do is go to PHPA (Forest Protection and Nature Conservation). The forest guards and handlers dragons will take us to see directly the life of dragons in landscape. Komodo Faranus Comodoensis an animal or mammal that has a weight of 150 kg and has the ability to smell good, especially for the smell of blood.
On the island of Komodo dragons animals live and breed well. Until August 2009, on this island there are about 1,300 dragons tail. Coupled with other islands, such as Island and Rinca and Gili Motang, their numbers totaled about 2500 tails. There are also approximately 100 individuals dragons in Wae Wuul Nature Reserve on the mainland island of Flores, but not including the Komodo National Park.
Observing the dragons in their natural life is really exciting because we must always be careful. Although it seems only a silent motionless, but we must be careful because in fact they were watching around and implement strategies to prey on prey. Now the attraction groups fighting dragons prey on a goat or chicken is prohibited. The reason for dragons that live freely in nature can survive without relying on the feeding of the National Park and visitors.
Besides Komodo, the island is also store a variety of exotic flora wood by local people Sepang which is used as a medicine and dye clothes, this nitak tree or sterculia oblongata in the believe is useful as medicines and seeds are tasty and delicious like peas.
