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Conservation & Community

Rinca is inhabited: roughly a thousand people live across Kampung Rinca, Kerora and Loho Baru, and standard visitor treks do not pass through those settlements. These posts look at how the park-wide daily cap of 1,000 visitors, split across three scheduled sessions, spreads pressure on an island whose dragon population the Balai Taman Nasional Komodo 2023 inventory put at 1,509. They cover where entrance-fee money is meant to go under PP No. 36/2024, why independent trekking is banned rather than merely discouraged, and what no-feeding enforcement changed about dragon behaviour near the old Loh Buaya kitchen area. They also take the 2020 boardwalk story apart, because it is still the most recycled piece of reporting about this island and most of it is now out of date. Where a claim about community benefit cannot be traced to a published figure, these posts say so rather than rounding it up.

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