photos / Internet world-starting January 2020, visitors may not continue enjoying Komodo island because the Indonesia authorities have decided to close the island to the your retail since authorities arrested 9 men who stole 41 dragons to then sell them for 30,000 euros. Detainees could have stolen the Dragons then sell them in the market of smuggled abroad, as reported by The Washington Post.
The theft of these animals “involves organized crime” but also to “the corruption of officials” said the expert in traffic of wild species of WWF, Crawford Allan, the daily quoted.
Some scientists believe that one of the uses that may have the lizards is the medicinal. However, the Associate Professor of the school of biological sciences at the University of Queensland, Bryan Fry, believes that “is more complicated” its medicinal application because “no one knows enough about the chemical compounds” dragons.
Moreover, the expert Allan says that if really “there is a demand for their medicinal use, should we care because this can lead to extinction”.
Komodo dragons are a unique species. They do not exist in any other part of the world. These lizards are characterized by eating in each of your meals more than 50% of its weight. In addition, they can grow up to 3 meters. They have a great sense of smell and come to detect food at about 10 kilometers away.
Komodo island is one of the destinations chosen by tourists for its beaches, landscapes, and its great attraction, the Dragons. It receives around 10,000 visitors a month, according to the latest data from 2018. Within the island lies the National Park that is home to the world’s largest lizards.
UNESCO says that more than 5,000 copies live in the island, released, and the International Union for the conservation of nature considers them “vulnerable”.
Source: The world
