科莫多巨蜥观光费上涨引发印尼旅游工人*工罢** Fee rise to see Komodo dragons triggers strike by Indonesian tourism workers

印度尼西亚大约有3300条科莫多巨蜥,它们可以长到3米长
印尼数百名旅游工作者举行*工罢**,抗议科莫多巨蜥门票大幅涨价。政府称,为了保护这种世界上最大的蜥蜴的栖息地,涨价是必要的。Hundreds of Indonesian tourism workers have gone on strike over a hefty increase in ticket prices to see the country’s Komodo dragons, a rise the government says is needed to preserve the habitat of the world’s largest lizard.
周一,科莫多国家公园两个主要岛屿的门票一夜之间上涨了18倍,达到375万卢比 (约合人民币1700元) ,当地工作人员表示,这将吓跑游客,导致他们的收入枯竭。The fee to access two of the main islands of Komodo national park shot up 18 times overnight to 3.75m rupiah (£205) on Monday, a jump that local workers said would scare off tourists and cause their incomes to dry up.

科莫多巨蜥 猎杀时刻
印度尼西亚是大约3300只稀有科莫多巨蜥的家园,这种巨蜥可以长到3米(10英尺)长,一口就能咬死大型猎物。Indonesia is home to about 3,300 rare Komodo dragons, which can grow up to 3 metres (10ft) in length and can kill large prey with a single venomous bite.
“这给我们带来了不确定性,”导游利奥·埃博(Leo Embo)说,他属于周二*工罢**的24个当地工人协会之一。“我们决定*工罢**,即使我们在这里遭受损失……这简直是断了我们的营生。”“This has caused uncertainty among us,” said Leo Embo, a tour guide who belonged to one of 24 local workers’ associations striking on Tuesday.“We decided to go on strike even when we’re suffering from a loss here ... this might as well be suicide.”
Kompas电视台*放播**了警察和抗议者对峙的画面。据当地媒体报道,已有数十人被捕,旅游部长桑迪亚加·乌诺(Sandiaga Uno)周一敦促工作人员与政府举行谈判。”Kompas TV showed footage of a standoff between police and protesters. Local media reported dozens had been arrested, and the tourism minister, Sandiaga Uno, on Monday urged workers to hold talks with the government.

东努沙登加拉州科莫多岛 (印度 尼西亚)
印度尼西亚东努沙登加拉省的这些岛屿是联合国教科文组织的世界遗产,在2019年疫情爆发前,吸引了近22.2万名游客。The islands in Indonesia’s East Nusa Tenggara province are a Unesco world heritage site and drew close to 222,000 visitors in 2019, before the pandemic struck.
在接下来的几年里,每年的数字下降到这个数字的四分之一左右,严重打击了依赖旅游业的企业。Annual numbers have fallen to about a quarter of that in the following years, decimating tourism-dependent businesses.

科莫多巨蜥与卡车对峙画面
印尼此前曾因从巨型蜥蜴身上创收而引发争议,其中包括一张巨蜥与一辆建筑车辆对峙的图片,该图片于2020年在社交媒体上疯传,引发了众怒。Indonesia has courted controversy before over its efforts to generate revenue from the giant lizards, including an image of a dragon facing off with a construction vehicle, which triggered outrage when it went viral on social media in 2020.
科莫多巨蜥简介:
- 学名 Varanus komodoensis (Ouwens,1912),。又名科莫多龙,是已知现今存在种类中最大的蜥蜴。科莫多巨蜥凶猛,成体吃同类的幼体,有时吃其他的成体。能迅速运动,偶尔攻击人类;但主要以腐肉为食,每天出洞到几千米以外的地方觅食。
- 科莫多巨蜥已濒临灭绝,野外仅存5700只左右,印度尼西亚已在科莫多岛上建立国家公园,以使科莫多巨蜥的家族壮大 。
- 繁殖方式之一:交配繁殖(卵生)。巨蜥约于9月产卵。刚成熟的雌蜥只能产4-6枚卵,每隔2-3天产一次,一窝卵平均有20颗卵,孵卵期为7个月,雌性会将卵产在地底或树穴,保护它们。十岁左右,进入产卵旺期,每次产下二十几枚,将卵埋在沙窝里,靠太阳辐射的自然温度孵卵,八个月后,幼蜥才破壳而出。刚出壳时,小蜥大小如同我们饲养的家鹅。它能活50年左右。
- 繁殖方式之二:也可以孤雌繁殖(不需要雄性即可繁殖后代),即卵不经过受精也能发育成正常的新个体。在英国的切斯特郡立动物园在2006年5月期间,一只单独饲养的雌性科莫多龙flora居然发生了孤雌生殖的奇特现象——也算是称得上是孤雌生殖现在在蜥蜴中的最高等的表现。