Komodo National Park is one of a unique national park in
Indonesia which located in the border region between the provinces of
West Nusa Tenggara and East Nusa Tenggara or within the Lesser Sunda
[link:78]Island[/link]s. The national park consists of three large
islands, which are Rinca, Padar and Komodo itself and 26 small islands.
It covers about 1.733 square kilometers of total area. It was founded in
1980 as the area for protecting komodo dragons that are recognized as the
biggest lizard in the world. Later, the national park is also dedicated
to protect other species, including animals that live under the water. In
1991, UNESCO recognized and declared it as World [link:34]Heritage
[/link] Sites and it also selected as one of the New 7 Wonders of
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The climate around the park is hot and dry, make it to an ideal
habitat for [link:17]Komodo[/link] dragon. There is only 500 meters
of cloud forests but it provides good habitat to some endemic
flora. On the north east coast, fringing and patch coral reefs are
developed well and extensive, it makes the water around the
komodo national park is rich of marine life, including
ocean sunfish, eagle rays, false pipefish, nudibranchs, tunicates, coral,
whale sharks, manta rays, pygmy seahorse, clown frogfish, blue-ringed
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