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The Environment and Forestry Ministry contends that there are more Sumatran rhinos in the wild than the less than 50 individuals the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) recently estimated.
The recent move by Switzerland-based organization the International Union for Conservation (IUCN), to list Komodo dragons, the world’s largest living lizards, as one of the world’s endangered species should be further scrutinized, Indonesian scientists have said.
"This announcement is quite shocking. Neither I nor other academics in the field of conservation - who are also IUCN members - from Indonesia were invited to discuss the reassessment of the komodo dragons status. Only taxonomists from Indonesia were invited to related meeting in Singapore last year."
The International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) recent reclassification of the Komodo dragon, a species endemic to Indonesia, as “endangered” should provide a stronger impetus for the protection if its habitat, activists and experts have said.
