Komodo National Park - Indonesia
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Komodo National Park is located in the region of Indonesia Wallace, identified by Conservation International and WWF as a priority area for conservation overall. The park is located between the islands of Flores and Sumbawa at the border of the Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT) and Nusa Tenggara Barat (NTP) provinces. It includes three major islands, Komodo, and PADAR corner, and many smaller islands, bringing a total of 603 km2 of land. The total size of the Komodo National Park is now 1817 km2. Proposed extensions of 25 km2 of land (Banta Island) and 479 km2 of marine waters resulting from the total area of 2321 km2.
Komodo National Park was established in 1980 and was declared a World Heritage site and a man and a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 1986. The park was originally created to preserve the only dragon (Varanus komodoensis), first discovered by scientists JKH in 1911, Van Steyn. Since then, the goals of conservation have been expanded to protect its entire biodiversity, both marine and terrestrial.
Most people in and around the park are the fishermen of BIMA (Sumbawa), Manggarai, Flores South, and South Sulawesi. South Sulawesi are from the Suku Bajau BUGIS or ethnic groups. Suku the Bajau were nomadic and moved from place to place in the region of Sulawesi, Nusa Tenggara and Maluku, to make their livelihoods. Descendants of the original inhabitants of Komodo, Mode Ata, still live in Komodo, but there is no pure blood of people who left their culture and language is being gradually integrated with recent immigrants.
Little is known about the early history of Komodo island. They were subjects of the Sultanate of BIMA, despite the remoteness of the island of BIMA understand their subjects were probably little concerned with the Sultanate of other occasional demand for tribute.
