THE ISLAND OF THE DRAGON (KOMODO ISLAND)

Indonesia is a country consisting of thousands of islands. So much charm of natural beauty offered by the islands where each island has a character and privileges. Maybe all this time the world community is more familiar with the island of Bali which is also part of one island in Indonesia, as a place of their excursions. Not only Bali. There are still many areas in Indonesia which offers exotic tropical beauty of nature, one of which is Komodo Island

Komodo Island is located in the Nusa Tenggara islands of Indonesia with an area of the island about 390 km ². The island is known as a habitat for native animal is the Komodo dragon, is a National Park managed by the Government of Indonesia. 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.

On this island, komodo dragons live and breed well. There are about 1,300 dragons tail that lived on the island, coupled with other islands, such as Island and Rinca and Gili Motang, their numbers totaled about 2500 tails. In addition there are about 100 birds dragons in Wae Wuul Nature Reserve on the mainland island of Flores, but not including the Komodo National Park.

Enchantment under the water of the island

Besides Komodo, the island is also store a variety of exotic flora Sepang timber which by local people used as 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.

Enchantment under the water of the island is no less interesting. For the fans of Scuba diving, underwater scenery in the island of Komodo is beautiful and charming. So many marine organisms that live and breed in the territorial waters of Komodo Island.

HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF ISLAND PARK

The Exotic island

In 1910 the Dutch named the island in the southern province of East Nusa Tenggara is the nickname of Komodo Island. This story begins with Lieutenant Steyn van Hens Broek who tries to prove statements about the presence of Dutch troops large animal resembling a dragon on the island. Steyn then killed a dragon and bring documentation to the Museum and Botanical Garden in Bogor to be investigated.

In 2009, the Park has been named a finalist in the "New Seven Wonders of Nature". with a pretty tight competition, I as a citizen of Indonesia, hoping this island can get into the 7 wonders of the world. To achieve all this, it needs support from the world community. Below are ways to support the Komodo Island as one of the 7 Wonders of the World.

It's easy, just go to the site and select http://www.new7wonders.com Komdo Island as the new 7 Wonders of the world.

The dragon was eating the lunch

Step 1

Select by giving a check mark in front of the seven natural wonders of the world picture of your choice among the 20 finalists, make sure one of them is the Komodo (Indonesia).

Step 2

Fill in the form your identity to ensure that your identity is correct and recorded in a database of supporters around the world who have given a vote.

Step 3

Confirmation email link. Your data has been entered, then the committee will send a confirmation to your email address as the email address entered in form earlier and ensure that you are the owner of this email.

Step 4

Open your email inbox, click the confirmation link has been sent for legitimate and count your vote.

Step 5

Voting Confirmed! Notice that the vote or voting is legitimate and the list of the seven natural wonders that you have selected will be displayed.

The Dragon

Komodo National Park while it is in rank 13 for the category Forest / National Park / Natural Wealth. Komodo Island should take warning 1 in that category to be included in new seven wonders of the world as the foundation New7Wonders choice based polls via internet.Kita ever lost because of the Borobudur Temple in 2007, yesterday only a few Indonesian citizens who participated in selecting the Borobudur Temple.

The rival was, Puerta Princesa in the Philippines, Dinosaur Provincial Park in Canada, Ella National Park in Tonga, Okawongo Delta in Botswana, Amazon, Tree if Life, Bialowieza Forest, El Kala National Park, and others. For that let us support Komodo Island became the world's 7 wonders of the world and let people know that Indonesia is rich in natural resources and world destinations destination.