Komodo’s Little Cockatoo

The yellow-crested cockatoo, no longer found on Flores in East Nusa Tenggara, flourishes on neighboring Komodo Island.

May 26, 2009

KOMODO Island is home not only to the Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis) that makes it a new candidate for inclusion in the list of the Seven Wonders of the World, but also to a whole range of bird species.

Late last April Tempo joined a media group on an expedition to Komodo Island. Led by Marthen Hamba Bandju of Burung Indonesia, a non-profit organization dedicated to the protection and conservation of endangered bird species and their habita

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