updated Sun. September 15, 2024
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Jakarta Post
February 1, 2018
The Komodo National Park, within the Lesser Sunda Islands, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and covers an area of over 1,700 square kilometers. It has been selected as one of the New 7 Wonders of Nature and its waters are rich with reef life and numerous fish species. The park contains many smallÃâà...
Mongabay.com
January 5, 2018
The first observation of a Myzomela species on Rote in East Nusa Tenggara province — one of the many islands that comprise the Lesser Sunda Islands — was carried out by the Australian ornithologist Ron Johnstone in 1990. Scientists have discovered a new bird species that lives only on Rote Island inÃâà...
South China Morning Post
December 9, 2017
The yellow-crested cockatoo, which is endemic to East Timor, Sulawesi and the Lesser Sunda Islands, has suffered a rapid decline due to the wildlife trade and deforestation, and is considered to be critically endangered. Ironically, the trade led to Hong Kong's introduced birds – at 10 per cent of theÃâà...
Science Trends
November 28, 2017
Mount Agung (Gunung Agung), is a stratovolcano on one of the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia known as Bali and along the Pacific Ring of Fire and began experiencing increased activity in September 2017. The volcano has been largely dormant since its catastrophic eruption in 1963 which killed anÃâà...
Jakarta Post
November 7, 2017
"One of the biggest challenges to managing waste in coastal conservation areas is how to first manage waste on the land," said M. Erdi Lazuardi, Lesser Sunda Seascape Project Leader with the WWF Indonesia. Tourists enjoy the Pink Beach at the Komodo National Park in West Manggarai, Flores, EastÃâà...
Earth Touch News
October 19, 2017
Komodo is one of several adjoining islands in a small corner of Indonesia's Lesser Sunda archipelago that harbours the dragon, locally often called the ora or buaja darat. The Papua or crocodile monitor of New Guinea may equal or exceed it in length, but the Komodo dragon easily claims the lizard crownÃâà...
VolcanoDiscovery
October 8, 2017
The alert level of the volcano was raised yesterday from from Level I (Normal) to Level II (Alert), the Indonesian volcano monitoring agency PVMBG reported. Over the past weeks, degassing and seismic activity have increased significantly, suggesting a greater likelihood of a new eruption, most likely in theÃâà...
Newsweek
September 21, 2017
Wildlife photographer Justin Hofman was visiting Sumbawa—an island in the middle of the Lesser Sunda Indonesian island chain—on a group snorkeling expedition last November when he spotted a seahorse making its way through the waters. “The tide was changing and the seahorse must have beenÃâà...
Popular Science
June 13, 2017
The two other top hotspots are New Zealand and the Lesser Sunda Islands in Indonesia. Although it didn't make the top three, the U.K. (and England in particular) showed a higher invasive species count that many other global regions. Closer to home, Florida boasts the well-known invasive burmeseÃâà...
The Independent
March 6, 2017
The park is officially part of Indonesia and is part of the Lesser Sunda Islands. Those are located just north of Australia. Tourists can visit there, and around 4,000 people live on the islands. It is the conservation area's 37th birthday today, which is what led it to be featured on the Google Doodle.
BBC News
February 26, 2016
On an archipelago of the Lesser Sunda Islands, which sweep arc-like through the Java Sea, maps can legitimately be marked with the archaic warning used by medieval cartographers: here be dragons. These dragons might not breathe fire or fly, but they are no less awe-inspiring or dangerous than theirÃâà...
