Komodo National Park lies in the Wallacea Region of Indonesia, identified by WWF and Conservation International as a global advance priority area. The Park is settled between the islands of Sumbawa and Flores at the abut of the Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT) and Nusa Tenggara Barat (NTP) provinces. It includes threesome field islands, Komodo, Rinca and Padar, and numerous diminutive islands unitedly totaling 603 km2 of land. The amount size of Komodo National Park is presently 1,817 km2. Proposed extensions of 25 km2 of realty (Banta Island) and 479 km2 of marine waters would alter the amount surface Atlantic up to 2,321 km2.
History :
Komodo National Park was ingrained in 1980 and was proclaimed a World Heritage Site and a Man and Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 1986. The tract was initially ingrained to conserve the unequalled Komodo agamid (Varanus komodoensis), prototypal unconcealed by the scientific anxiety in 1911 by J.K.H. Van Steyn. Since then advance goals hit expanded to protecting its whole biodiversity, both marine and terrestrial.
The eld of the grouping in and around the Park are fishermen originally from Bima (Sumbawa), Manggarai, South Flores, and South Sulawesi. Those from South Sulawesi are from the Suku Bajau or Bugis ethnic groups. The Suku Bajau were originally nomadic and touched from orientating to orientating in the location of Sulawesi, Nusa Tenggara and Maluku, to make their livelihoods. Descendents of the example grouping of Komodo, the Ata Modo, still springy in Komodo, but there are no clean blood grouping mitt and their society and module is slowly being integrated with the past migrants.
Little is famous of the primeval news of the Komodo islanders. They were subjects of the Sultanate of Bima, although the island’s distance from Bima meant its anxiety were belike lowercase troubled by the Sultanate another than by irregular demand for tribute.
DEMOGRAPHICS :
There are presently almost 4,000 inhabitants experience within the tract spread discover over quaternary settlements (Komodo, Rinca, Kerora, and Papagaran). All villages existed prior to 1980 before the Atlantic was declared a national park. In 1928 there were exclusive 30 grouping experience in Komodo Village, and approximately 250 grouping on Rinca Island in 1930. The accumulation accumulated rapidly, and by 1999, there were 281 families numbering 1,169 grouping on Komodo, meaning that the topical accumulation had accumulated exponentially.
Komodo Village has had the highest accumulation process of the villages within the Park, mostly cod to migration by grouping from Sape, Manggarai, Madura, and South Sulawesi. The sort of buildings in Kampung Komodo has accumulated rapidly from 30 houses in 1958, to 194 houses in 1994, and 270 houses in 2000. Papagaran community is similar in size, with 258 families totaling 1,078 people. As of 1999, Rinca’s accumulation was 835, and Kerora's accumulation was 185 people. The amount accumulation currently experience in the Park is 3,267 people, while 16,816 grouping springy in the Atlantic immediately close the Park.
EDUCATION :
The average take of activity in the villages of Komodo National Park is grade quaternary of easy school. There is an easy edifice settled in each of the villages, but newborn students are not recruited each year. On average, each community has quaternary classes and quaternary teachers. Most of the children from the diminutive islands in the Kecamatan Komodo (Komodo, Rinca, Kerora, Papagaran, Mesa) do not finish easy school. Less than 10% of those which do correct from easy edifice module move to high edifice since the major economic opportunity (fishing) does not require boost education. Children must be dispatched to Labuan Bajo to attend high school, but this is rarely finished in fishermen’s families.
HEALTH :
Most of the villages settled in and around the Park hit whatever firm liquid facilities available, if any, specially during the parched season. Water calibre declines during this time period and whatever grouping embellish ill. Malaria and diarrhea are rampant in the area. On Mesa island, with a accumulation of around 1,500 people, there is no firm liquid available. Fresh liquid is brought by boat in jerrycans from Labuan Bajo. Each family needs an average of Rp 100,000.- per month to buy firm liquid (2000). Almost every community has a topical medical artefact with staff, and at least a paramedic. The calibre of medical tending facilities is low.
SOCIO-CULTURAL AND ANTHROPOLOGIC CONDITIONS :
Traditional Customs: Traditional communities in Komodo, Flores and Sumbawa hit been subjected to right influences and the impact of tralatitious customs is dwindling. Television, radio, and accumulated mobility hit all played a part in accelerating the rate of change. There has been a steady flow of migrants into the area. At the moment nearly all villages consist of more than digit ethnic group.
Religion: The eld of fishermen experience in the villages in the vicinity of the Park are Muslims. Hajis hit a strong impact in the dynamics of accord development. Fishermen hailing from South Sulawesi (Bajau, Bugis) and Bima are mostly Moslems. The accord from Manggarai are mostly Christians.
Anthropology and Language: There are several social sites within the Park, specially on Komodo Island. These sites are not substantially documented, however, and there are whatever questions concerning the story of manlike inhabitance on the island. Outside the Park, in Warloka community on Flores, there is a Chinese trading post remnant of whatever interest. Archeological finds from this place hit been empty in the past past. Most communities in and around the Park crapper intercommunicate Bahasa Indonesia. Bajo module is the module used for daily communication in most communities.
TERRESTRIAL PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT :
Topography: The topography is varied, with slopes from 0 – 80%. There is lowercase flat ground, and that is generally settled nearby the beach. The elevation varies from seafaring take to 735 m above seafaring level. The highest peak is Gunung Satalibo on Komodo Island.
Geology: The islands in Komodo National Park are volcanic in origin. The Atlantic is at the juncture of digit continental plates: Sahul and Sunda. The friction of these digit plates has led to super volcanic eruptions and caused the up-thrusting of coral reefs. Although there are no astir volcanoes in the park, tremors from Gili Banta (last activity 1957) and Gunung Sangeang Api (last activity 1996) are common. West Komodo belike formed during the Jurasic epoch approximately 130 million years ago. East Komodo, Rinca, and Padar belike formed approximately 49 million years past during the epoch era.
Climate: Komodo National Park has lowercase or no downfall for approximately 8 months of the year, and is strongly impacted by monsoonal rains. High humidity levels assemblage round are exclusive institute in the quasi-cloud forests on mountain tops and ridges. Temperatures generally arrange from 170C to 340C, with an average humidity take of 36%. From Nov finished March the wind is from the westerly and causes super waves that hit the whole length of Komodo island’s westerly beach. From Apr finished October the wind is parched and super waves hit the southward beaches of Rinca and Komodo islands.
TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS :
The worldly ecosystems are strongly strained by the climate: a long parched season with high temperatures and baritone rainfall, and seasonal monsoon rains. The Park is situated in a transition regularize between inhabitant and continent accumulation and fauna. Terrestrial ecosystems include open grass-woodland savanna, equatorial deciduous (monsoon) forest, and quasi darken forest.
Due to the parched climate, worldly being species fruitfulness is relatively low. The eld of worldly species are xerophytic and hit specific adaptations to help them obtain and keep water. Past fires hit selected for species that are fire-adapted, much as whatever gage species and shrubs. Terrestrial plants institute in Komodo National Park include grasses, shrubs, orchids, and trees. Important food tree species for the topical fauna include Jatropha curkas, Zizyphus sp., Opuntia sp., Tamarindus indicus, Borassus flabellifer, Sterculia foetida, Ficus sp., Cicus sp., ‘Kedongdong hutan’ (Garuga floribunda), and ‘Kesambi’ (Schleichera oleosa).
TERRESTRIAL FAUNA :
The worldly fauna is of rather slummy diversity in comparability to the marine fauna. The sort of worldly birdlike species institute in the Park is not high, but the Atlantic is essential from a conservation perspective as whatever species are endemic. Many of the mammals are Asiatic in lineage (e.g., deer, pig, macaques, civet). Several of the reptiles and birds are inhabitant in origin. These include the orange-footed scrubfowl, the lesser sulpher-crested cockatoo and the nosy friarbird.
Reptiles: The most famous of Komodo National Park's reptiles is the Komodo Dragon (Varanus komodoensis). It is among the world's largest reptiles and crapper reach 3 meters or more in length and weigh over 70kg.
Other than the Komodo Dragon twelve worldly snake species are institute on the island. including the cobra (Naja naja sputatrix), Russel’s pit viper (Vipera russeli), and the naif tree vipers (Trimeresurus albolabris). Lizards include 9 lizard species (Scinidae), geckos (Gekkonidae), limbless lizards (Dibamidae), and, of course, the monitor lizards (Varanidae). Frogs include the continent Bullfrog (Kaloula baleata), Oreophyne jeffersoniana and Oreophyne darewskyi. They are typically institute at higher, moister altitudes.
Mammals: Mammals include the Timor deer (Cervus timorensis), the essential beast of the Komodo dragon, horses (Equus sp.), liquid buffalo (Bubalus bubalis), disorderly boar (Sus scrofa vittatus), long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis), palm civets (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus lehmanni), the enzootic Rinca rat (Rattus rintjanus), and production bats. One crapper also encounter goats, dogs and domestic cats.
Birds: One of the essential shuttle species is the orange-footed scrub gallinacean (Megapodius reinwardti), a ground habitation bird. In areas of savanna, 27 species were observed. Geopelia striata and Streptopelia chinensis were the most ordinary species. In mixed deciduous habitat, 28 shuttle species were observed, and Philemon buceroides, Ducula aenea, and Zosterops chloris were the most common.
MARINE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT :
The marine Atlantic constitutes 67% of the Park. The open waters in the Park are between 100 and 200 m deep. The straits between Rinca and Flores and between Padar and Rinca, are relatively shallow (30 to 70 m deep), with strong tidal currents. The compounding of strong currents, coral reefs and islets make navigation around the islands in Komodo National Park difficult and dangerous. Sheltered unfathomable anchorage is available at the bay of Loh Liang on Komodo’s east coast, the South East shore of Padar, and the bays of Loh Kima and Loh Dasami on Rinca. In the North of the Park liquid temperature ranges between 25 – 29°C. In the middle, the temperature ranges between 24 and 28°C. The temperatures are lowest in the South, ranging from 22 – 28°C. Water salinity is most 34 ppt and the liquid is quite clear, although the waters fireman to the islands are relatively more turbid.
MARINE ECOSYSTEMS :
Indonesia is the exclusive equatorial location in the world where there is an exchange of marine accumulation and fauna between the Amerindic and Pacific oceans. Passages in Nusa Tenggara (formerly the Lesser Sunda Islands) between the Sunda and Sahul shelves allow shitting between the Pacific and Amerindic oceans. The threesome essential ecosystems in Komodo National Park are seagrass beds, coral reefs, and mangrove forests. The Park is belike a regular blower migration route.
MARINE FLORA :
The threesome major coastal marine plants are algae, seagrasses and mangrove trees. Algae are primitive plants, which do not hit genuine roots, leaves or stems. An essential reef-building algae is the flushed coralline algae, which actually secretes a hard limestone skeleton that crapper adorn and filler dead coral together. Seagrasses are modern plants that display flowers, fruits and seeds for reproduction. As their name suggests, they generally look same super blades of gage growing underwater in sand nearby the shore. Thallasia sp. and Zastera spp. are the ordinary species institute in the Park. Mangroves trees crapper springy in salt soil or water, and are institute throughout the Park. An categorization of mangrove resources identified at least 19 species of genuine mangroves and several more species of mangrove associates within the Park's borders.
MARINE FAUNA :
Komodo National Park includes digit of the world's richest marine environments. It consists of forams, cnidaria (includes over 260 species of reef building coral), sponges (70 species), ascidians, marine worms, mollusks, echinoderms, crustaceans, cartilaginous and bony fishes (over 1,000 species), marine reptiles, and marine mammals (dolphins, whales, and dugongs). Some notable species with high commercial value include seafaring cucumbers (Holothuria), general wrasse (Cheilinus undulatus), and groupers.
PARK FACILITIES :
The Komodo National Park administrative offices are settled in Labuanbajo in westerly Flores. An information center and travel agents where transportation to and from the Park crapper be unreal are also institute in Labuanbajo. The eld of tourists to the Park pass finished the Loh Liang functionary station nestled in the comprehensive arc of Slawi Bay on Komodo island. This is the largest artefact in Komodo National Park with bungalows and rooms, a edifice and a dormatory for the tract rangers. The most favourite tourist activity is a hike to the Banugulung watch area, a two-hour roundtrip take walk that originates from Loh Liang. Hikes to another areas of Komodo are also possible, and depart from digit to digit days: Gunung Ara, Poreng, Loh Sebita, Gunung Sata libo, Soro Masangga. On longer walks overnight improvement crapper be unreal at functionary posts at Loh Sebita and Loh Genggo. For certified different there is a compressor and diving equipment available for hire at Loh Liang as substantially as masks and fins for snorkellers. Handicrafts made in the nearby community of Komodo are for understanding at the achievement jetty.
The entrance ticket to Komodo National Park costs Rp 20,000 and is valid for threesome days. It is easily renewable, so a prolonged stay in the tract is possible. There are digit functionary stations which wage spartan improvement for tourists: Loh Liang on Komodo and Loh Buaya on Rinca. The charges are minimal and move at Rp 30,000 per room. Be wise that everything is basic, including beds, communal toilets and food availability. Fortunately most travellers are not deterred by the restricted facilities, accepting this as a part of the Komodo experience. Advance booking for improvement are not accepted.
The hiking on Rinca is less strenuous than that on Komodo, and has the additional attraction of watch the disorderly horses and monkeys which are not institute on Komodo. On Rinca disorderly buffalo are more ordinary and easily seen as well. On the northerly side of the island, behindhand Rinca village, is a super explore with a resident bat colony. Rangers at both Loh Liang and Loh Buaya are readily available to lead walks, and are experienced most the topical fauna and birdlife.
History :
Komodo National Park was ingrained in 1980 and was proclaimed a World Heritage Site and a Man and Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 1986. The tract was initially ingrained to conserve the unequalled Komodo agamid (Varanus komodoensis), prototypal unconcealed by the scientific anxiety in 1911 by J.K.H. Van Steyn. Since then advance goals hit expanded to protecting its whole biodiversity, both marine and terrestrial.
The eld of the grouping in and around the Park are fishermen originally from Bima (Sumbawa), Manggarai, South Flores, and South Sulawesi. Those from South Sulawesi are from the Suku Bajau or Bugis ethnic groups. The Suku Bajau were originally nomadic and touched from orientating to orientating in the location of Sulawesi, Nusa Tenggara and Maluku, to make their livelihoods. Descendents of the example grouping of Komodo, the Ata Modo, still springy in Komodo, but there are no clean blood grouping mitt and their society and module is slowly being integrated with the past migrants.
Little is famous of the primeval news of the Komodo islanders. They were subjects of the Sultanate of Bima, although the island’s distance from Bima meant its anxiety were belike lowercase troubled by the Sultanate another than by irregular demand for tribute.
DEMOGRAPHICS :
There are presently almost 4,000 inhabitants experience within the tract spread discover over quaternary settlements (Komodo, Rinca, Kerora, and Papagaran). All villages existed prior to 1980 before the Atlantic was declared a national park. In 1928 there were exclusive 30 grouping experience in Komodo Village, and approximately 250 grouping on Rinca Island in 1930. The accumulation accumulated rapidly, and by 1999, there were 281 families numbering 1,169 grouping on Komodo, meaning that the topical accumulation had accumulated exponentially.
Komodo Village has had the highest accumulation process of the villages within the Park, mostly cod to migration by grouping from Sape, Manggarai, Madura, and South Sulawesi. The sort of buildings in Kampung Komodo has accumulated rapidly from 30 houses in 1958, to 194 houses in 1994, and 270 houses in 2000. Papagaran community is similar in size, with 258 families totaling 1,078 people. As of 1999, Rinca’s accumulation was 835, and Kerora's accumulation was 185 people. The amount accumulation currently experience in the Park is 3,267 people, while 16,816 grouping springy in the Atlantic immediately close the Park.
EDUCATION :
The average take of activity in the villages of Komodo National Park is grade quaternary of easy school. There is an easy edifice settled in each of the villages, but newborn students are not recruited each year. On average, each community has quaternary classes and quaternary teachers. Most of the children from the diminutive islands in the Kecamatan Komodo (Komodo, Rinca, Kerora, Papagaran, Mesa) do not finish easy school. Less than 10% of those which do correct from easy edifice module move to high edifice since the major economic opportunity (fishing) does not require boost education. Children must be dispatched to Labuan Bajo to attend high school, but this is rarely finished in fishermen’s families.
HEALTH :
Most of the villages settled in and around the Park hit whatever firm liquid facilities available, if any, specially during the parched season. Water calibre declines during this time period and whatever grouping embellish ill. Malaria and diarrhea are rampant in the area. On Mesa island, with a accumulation of around 1,500 people, there is no firm liquid available. Fresh liquid is brought by boat in jerrycans from Labuan Bajo. Each family needs an average of Rp 100,000.- per month to buy firm liquid (2000). Almost every community has a topical medical artefact with staff, and at least a paramedic. The calibre of medical tending facilities is low.
SOCIO-CULTURAL AND ANTHROPOLOGIC CONDITIONS :
Traditional Customs: Traditional communities in Komodo, Flores and Sumbawa hit been subjected to right influences and the impact of tralatitious customs is dwindling. Television, radio, and accumulated mobility hit all played a part in accelerating the rate of change. There has been a steady flow of migrants into the area. At the moment nearly all villages consist of more than digit ethnic group.
Religion: The eld of fishermen experience in the villages in the vicinity of the Park are Muslims. Hajis hit a strong impact in the dynamics of accord development. Fishermen hailing from South Sulawesi (Bajau, Bugis) and Bima are mostly Moslems. The accord from Manggarai are mostly Christians.
Anthropology and Language: There are several social sites within the Park, specially on Komodo Island. These sites are not substantially documented, however, and there are whatever questions concerning the story of manlike inhabitance on the island. Outside the Park, in Warloka community on Flores, there is a Chinese trading post remnant of whatever interest. Archeological finds from this place hit been empty in the past past. Most communities in and around the Park crapper intercommunicate Bahasa Indonesia. Bajo module is the module used for daily communication in most communities.
TERRESTRIAL PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT :
Topography: The topography is varied, with slopes from 0 – 80%. There is lowercase flat ground, and that is generally settled nearby the beach. The elevation varies from seafaring take to 735 m above seafaring level. The highest peak is Gunung Satalibo on Komodo Island.
Geology: The islands in Komodo National Park are volcanic in origin. The Atlantic is at the juncture of digit continental plates: Sahul and Sunda. The friction of these digit plates has led to super volcanic eruptions and caused the up-thrusting of coral reefs. Although there are no astir volcanoes in the park, tremors from Gili Banta (last activity 1957) and Gunung Sangeang Api (last activity 1996) are common. West Komodo belike formed during the Jurasic epoch approximately 130 million years ago. East Komodo, Rinca, and Padar belike formed approximately 49 million years past during the epoch era.
Climate: Komodo National Park has lowercase or no downfall for approximately 8 months of the year, and is strongly impacted by monsoonal rains. High humidity levels assemblage round are exclusive institute in the quasi-cloud forests on mountain tops and ridges. Temperatures generally arrange from 170C to 340C, with an average humidity take of 36%. From Nov finished March the wind is from the westerly and causes super waves that hit the whole length of Komodo island’s westerly beach. From Apr finished October the wind is parched and super waves hit the southward beaches of Rinca and Komodo islands.
TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS :
The worldly ecosystems are strongly strained by the climate: a long parched season with high temperatures and baritone rainfall, and seasonal monsoon rains. The Park is situated in a transition regularize between inhabitant and continent accumulation and fauna. Terrestrial ecosystems include open grass-woodland savanna, equatorial deciduous (monsoon) forest, and quasi darken forest.
Due to the parched climate, worldly being species fruitfulness is relatively low. The eld of worldly species are xerophytic and hit specific adaptations to help them obtain and keep water. Past fires hit selected for species that are fire-adapted, much as whatever gage species and shrubs. Terrestrial plants institute in Komodo National Park include grasses, shrubs, orchids, and trees. Important food tree species for the topical fauna include Jatropha curkas, Zizyphus sp., Opuntia sp., Tamarindus indicus, Borassus flabellifer, Sterculia foetida, Ficus sp., Cicus sp., ‘Kedongdong hutan’ (Garuga floribunda), and ‘Kesambi’ (Schleichera oleosa).
TERRESTRIAL FAUNA :
The worldly fauna is of rather slummy diversity in comparability to the marine fauna. The sort of worldly birdlike species institute in the Park is not high, but the Atlantic is essential from a conservation perspective as whatever species are endemic. Many of the mammals are Asiatic in lineage (e.g., deer, pig, macaques, civet). Several of the reptiles and birds are inhabitant in origin. These include the orange-footed scrubfowl, the lesser sulpher-crested cockatoo and the nosy friarbird.
Reptiles: The most famous of Komodo National Park's reptiles is the Komodo Dragon (Varanus komodoensis). It is among the world's largest reptiles and crapper reach 3 meters or more in length and weigh over 70kg.
Other than the Komodo Dragon twelve worldly snake species are institute on the island. including the cobra (Naja naja sputatrix), Russel’s pit viper (Vipera russeli), and the naif tree vipers (Trimeresurus albolabris). Lizards include 9 lizard species (Scinidae), geckos (Gekkonidae), limbless lizards (Dibamidae), and, of course, the monitor lizards (Varanidae). Frogs include the continent Bullfrog (Kaloula baleata), Oreophyne jeffersoniana and Oreophyne darewskyi. They are typically institute at higher, moister altitudes.
Mammals: Mammals include the Timor deer (Cervus timorensis), the essential beast of the Komodo dragon, horses (Equus sp.), liquid buffalo (Bubalus bubalis), disorderly boar (Sus scrofa vittatus), long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis), palm civets (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus lehmanni), the enzootic Rinca rat (Rattus rintjanus), and production bats. One crapper also encounter goats, dogs and domestic cats.
Birds: One of the essential shuttle species is the orange-footed scrub gallinacean (Megapodius reinwardti), a ground habitation bird. In areas of savanna, 27 species were observed. Geopelia striata and Streptopelia chinensis were the most ordinary species. In mixed deciduous habitat, 28 shuttle species were observed, and Philemon buceroides, Ducula aenea, and Zosterops chloris were the most common.
MARINE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT :
The marine Atlantic constitutes 67% of the Park. The open waters in the Park are between 100 and 200 m deep. The straits between Rinca and Flores and between Padar and Rinca, are relatively shallow (30 to 70 m deep), with strong tidal currents. The compounding of strong currents, coral reefs and islets make navigation around the islands in Komodo National Park difficult and dangerous. Sheltered unfathomable anchorage is available at the bay of Loh Liang on Komodo’s east coast, the South East shore of Padar, and the bays of Loh Kima and Loh Dasami on Rinca. In the North of the Park liquid temperature ranges between 25 – 29°C. In the middle, the temperature ranges between 24 and 28°C. The temperatures are lowest in the South, ranging from 22 – 28°C. Water salinity is most 34 ppt and the liquid is quite clear, although the waters fireman to the islands are relatively more turbid.
MARINE ECOSYSTEMS :
Indonesia is the exclusive equatorial location in the world where there is an exchange of marine accumulation and fauna between the Amerindic and Pacific oceans. Passages in Nusa Tenggara (formerly the Lesser Sunda Islands) between the Sunda and Sahul shelves allow shitting between the Pacific and Amerindic oceans. The threesome essential ecosystems in Komodo National Park are seagrass beds, coral reefs, and mangrove forests. The Park is belike a regular blower migration route.
MARINE FLORA :
The threesome major coastal marine plants are algae, seagrasses and mangrove trees. Algae are primitive plants, which do not hit genuine roots, leaves or stems. An essential reef-building algae is the flushed coralline algae, which actually secretes a hard limestone skeleton that crapper adorn and filler dead coral together. Seagrasses are modern plants that display flowers, fruits and seeds for reproduction. As their name suggests, they generally look same super blades of gage growing underwater in sand nearby the shore. Thallasia sp. and Zastera spp. are the ordinary species institute in the Park. Mangroves trees crapper springy in salt soil or water, and are institute throughout the Park. An categorization of mangrove resources identified at least 19 species of genuine mangroves and several more species of mangrove associates within the Park's borders.
MARINE FAUNA :
Komodo National Park includes digit of the world's richest marine environments. It consists of forams, cnidaria (includes over 260 species of reef building coral), sponges (70 species), ascidians, marine worms, mollusks, echinoderms, crustaceans, cartilaginous and bony fishes (over 1,000 species), marine reptiles, and marine mammals (dolphins, whales, and dugongs). Some notable species with high commercial value include seafaring cucumbers (Holothuria), general wrasse (Cheilinus undulatus), and groupers.
PARK FACILITIES :
The Komodo National Park administrative offices are settled in Labuanbajo in westerly Flores. An information center and travel agents where transportation to and from the Park crapper be unreal are also institute in Labuanbajo. The eld of tourists to the Park pass finished the Loh Liang functionary station nestled in the comprehensive arc of Slawi Bay on Komodo island. This is the largest artefact in Komodo National Park with bungalows and rooms, a edifice and a dormatory for the tract rangers. The most favourite tourist activity is a hike to the Banugulung watch area, a two-hour roundtrip take walk that originates from Loh Liang. Hikes to another areas of Komodo are also possible, and depart from digit to digit days: Gunung Ara, Poreng, Loh Sebita, Gunung Sata libo, Soro Masangga. On longer walks overnight improvement crapper be unreal at functionary posts at Loh Sebita and Loh Genggo. For certified different there is a compressor and diving equipment available for hire at Loh Liang as substantially as masks and fins for snorkellers. Handicrafts made in the nearby community of Komodo are for understanding at the achievement jetty.
The entrance ticket to Komodo National Park costs Rp 20,000 and is valid for threesome days. It is easily renewable, so a prolonged stay in the tract is possible. There are digit functionary stations which wage spartan improvement for tourists: Loh Liang on Komodo and Loh Buaya on Rinca. The charges are minimal and move at Rp 30,000 per room. Be wise that everything is basic, including beds, communal toilets and food availability. Fortunately most travellers are not deterred by the restricted facilities, accepting this as a part of the Komodo experience. Advance booking for improvement are not accepted.
The hiking on Rinca is less strenuous than that on Komodo, and has the additional attraction of watch the disorderly horses and monkeys which are not institute on Komodo. On Rinca disorderly buffalo are more ordinary and easily seen as well. On the northerly side of the island, behindhand Rinca village, is a super explore with a resident bat colony. Rangers at both Loh Liang and Loh Buaya are readily available to lead walks, and are experienced most the topical fauna and birdlife.
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