Indonesia’s Komodo Island to limit tourist visits to 50,000 yearly

Jakarta: Indonesia’s East Nusa Tenggara province’s administration will limit the number of visitors to Komodo Island to 50,000 people per year as part of efforts to conserve the Komodo dragons, the world’s largest living lizards which only occur in Eastern Indonesia.

“Komodo Island is to be set as a conservation island. We will limit the number of visitors, not to be more than 50,000 people per year,” the province’s governor Viktor Laiskodat was quoted by state news agency Antara.