The records that Ouwens made are the first reliable documentation of details about what is now called the Komodo dragon (or Komodo monitor). Ouwens, the Director of the Zoological Museum and Botanical Gardens in Bogor, Java. More samples were then photographed by Peter A. It was approximately 2.1 metres (6.9 feet) long, with a shape very similar to that of a lizard. Van Hensbroek took the dragon to headquarters where measurements were taken. After a few days, Hensbroek managed to kill one of the lizards to investigate. He armed himself, and accompanied by a team of soldiers, he landed on the island. Hearing the reports, Lieutenant Steyn van Hensbroek, an official of the Dutch Colonial Administration in Flores, planned a trip to Komodo Island to continue the search himself. It was believed then that the odd creature could fly. It burnt them and so they could not continue the investigation. The Dutch sailors reported that the creature measured up to seven metres (twenty-three feet) in length with a large body and mouth which constantly breathed fire. The creature was allegedly a dragon which inhabited a small island in the Lesser Sunda Islands (the main island of which is Flores). But no Westerner visited the island to check the story until official interest was sparked in the early 1910s by stories from Dutch sailors based in Flores in East Nusa Tenggara about a mysterious creature. The earliest stories (among Westerners) of a dragon-like animal existing in the region circulated widely and attracted considerable attention. Komodo Island is home to the Komodo Dragon, the largest lizard on earth. The island's surface area covers 291 square kilometres. It lies between the substantially larger neighboring islands Sumbawa to the west and Flores to the east. Komodo is part of the Lesser Sunda chain of islands and forms part of the Komodo National Park. Administratively, it is part of the Komodo District (which also includes Rinca Island and numerous other islands off the west coast of Flores, together with part of the western portion of Flores itself), forming part of West Manggarai Regency within the province of East Nusa Tenggara.
In addition, the island is a popular destination for diving. The people are primarily adherents of Islam but there are also Christian and Hindu congregations. The people of the island are descendants of former convicts who were exiled to the island and who have mixed with Bugis from Sulawesi. Komodo Island has a surface area of 291 square kilometres and a human population of about 1,800 people in 2020. The island is particularly notable as the habitat of the Komodo dragon, the largest lizard on Earth, which is named after the island. Komodo dragons are native to Indonesia and only live in Komodo National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site, as well as the nearby island of Flores, according to IUCN.Komodo ( Indonesian: Pulau Komodo) is one of the 17,508 islands that comprise the Republic of Indonesia. Andrew Terry, conservation director of the Zoological Society of London. "The idea that these prehistoric animals have moved one step closer to extinction due in part to climate change is terrifying," said Dr. Rising global temperatures and higher sea levels, IUCN says, will reduce the Komodo dragon's habitat by at least 30% over the next 45 years. Why is the Komodo dragon - or Varanus komodoensis - so threatened? Climate change. Scaly and with forked tongues, Komodo dragons are the largest lizards to still walk the Earth.Ī new report from an international biodiversity conservation organization says the fearsome reptiles are edging closer to global extinction.Īccording to the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Red List, an assessment of the health of tens of thousands of species across the globe, Komodo dragons have gone from "vulnerable" to "endangered." In this photograph taken in 2010, a Komodo dragon prowls the shore of Komodo island, the natural habitat of the world's largest lizard.
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