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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.
The ongoing infrastructure development in Komodo National Park, East Nusa Tenggara, have come into the spotlight after the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) urged the government to halt the project.
The East Nusa Tenggara administration has denied using the fictional dinosaur island "Jurassic Park" as inspiration behind the construction of a tourism project on the province's Rinca Island, home to the protected Komodo dragon.
“I think it is too soon to turn Labuan Bajo into a priority tourist destination when the region itself still needs a lot of improvement,” Syaifullah Rahim, a Flores native, told The Jakarta Post.
