Hesti Widodo

HESTI WIDODO

At dusk, the mountains of Indonesia's Komodo National Park look like temples reaching towards the sky. What local conservationist Hesti Widodo realizes-and what she hopes to make others aware of-is that the mountains of Komodo, as well as its grasslands and waters, are temples, receptacles of the earth's most precious gifts.

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Her mission is to save animal or plants from wild hunter.Those wild hunter are using dynamites to fishing and the effects are not only for the fishes but for the coral reefs too.

Komodo National Park, a World Heritage site and part of a four-year Rare-United Nations project to develop ways to use ecotourism to support conservation and community development. Hiding in the crevices of Komodo's mountains, its broad savannahs, and below the surface of its clear waters are some of the world's threatened plant and animal species: water buffalo and Timor deer, manatees and manta rays, more than a 1,000 species of tropical fish, fragile corals, and the famed Komodo Dragon.

There are also 4,000 people living in and around the park who depend upon these resources for their survival. Through this project, Rare is working to create new sources of employment through ecotourism that are both healthier for the park and more profitable for struggling communities. Their partners in this project were the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, United Nations Environment Programme, United Nations Foundation, Aveda Corporation, Komodo National Park, and The Nature Conservancy.

I choose this lady as my hero because her job was very interesting because she saves so many lifes of living organisms such as animals and plants.