Aired (September 13, 2024): Gregg Yan, a Filipino explorer and environmentalist, will take us on his amazing journey to Indonesia’s Komodo Islands to encounter a real-life dragon.
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00:00If you think that dragons are just wild imaginations, you're wrong.
00:11A Filipino explorer and environmentalist went to Indonesia to see the dragon's face-to-face.
00:18Do they also emit fire?
00:21Sometimes, we were accompanied by Greg Yan, an amazing Filipino adventurer, when he went to Serengeti National Park in Africa.
00:38Greg has a new mission, to see face-to-face the world's largest lizards, the Komodo dragons of Indonesia.
00:48From the Philippines, Greg traveled for 4 hours to Bali, Indonesia.
00:57From there, they went to Komodo Islands National Park.
01:06We're already here in Komodo Islands, and as you can see, the terrain is very hot, very dry.
01:13We were expecting the Komodo dragons to be wild, but we were surprised to find out that there are people living in Taman National Komodo, or Komodo Islands National Park.
01:27We haven't seen a dragon yet, but hopefully, we'll see one.
01:31The Komodo dragons are three times bigger than the modern-day dinosaurs, weighing 150 pounds.
01:44With the help of his local guide, Greg was able to spot a few Komodo dragons.
01:50These are the Komodo dragons. They're bigger than I thought, are you?
01:53Yes, of course.
01:54This is very lucky, because you see the two dragons here.
01:58The more the big one, the bigger.
02:00As wild animals, they are not allowed to be near, but it's okay, as long as we have an official Indonesian ranger with us.
02:14These are endangered species, and only less than 5,000 Komodo dragons live on our planet today.
02:23One way to conserve Komodo dragons is to support locally and responsibly run ecotourism packages.
02:33By keeping an endangered animal alive, all groups benefit.
02:39If there are Komodo dragons, others will surely be affected as well.