JAKARTA - Indonesia has decided it does not need to close the eastern island of Komodo next year as planned because its population of rare Komodo dragons is relatively stable and not under threat, the Environment Minister said on Monday (Sept 30).
East Nusa Tenggara Governor Viktor Laiskodat said in July that the island needed to be closed to the public to stop tourism from interfering in the dragon's mating and hatching processes and to cut the risk of poaching of the reptiles' prey, including deer, buffalo and wild boar.
The island would be reopened after about a year as a premium tourist destination, according to the plan.
But Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar said data showed the population of dragons, the largest living species of lizard, had been stable for more than a decade.
"(The number of) Komodo dragons on Komodo island during 2002 to 2019 observations has been relatively stable. There is no threat of a decline," Ms Bakar said by text message.
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