Today the plan is to go to Komodo National Park for a tour and then to go to a local village to give toys to the children who need it most. We arrived by tender to the Komodo National Park. Here we would see Komodo dragons and learn a little bit about them and the area they call home as well as the marine environments of Komodo.
Komodo National Park was established in 1980 and became a world heritage site in 1986.
To give a bit of background of the park, the Park includes one of the richest marine environments and harbors more than 1,000 species of fish, some 260 species of reef-building coral, and 70 species of sponges. Dugong, sharks, manta rays, whales, dolphins, and sea turtles also make Komodo National Park their home. There are only about 5,000 Komodo dragons left and the destructive fishing practices are decimating our oceans. The dynamite fishing (which we heard while diving), cyanide fishing and the high pressure fishing is depleting the oceans.
A local monkey!
