Only about three thousand Komodo dragons are let in the world because all of these reasons the largest threat to the Komodo dragon is the volcanic activity. The volcanic activity causes loss of the lizard's prey,plus causing deaths and loss of the dragons. Another threat is the villagers that live close to the komodo dragons. The villagers are reducing the population by poisoning carrion and then throwing it where the lizards will get and then killing the lizards by poison. They are also endangered because of tourism in the Sunda and Komodo Islands and because of illegal poaching. There are about 5000 dragons in the wild and only 350 of them are breeding females. The Komodo dragon is the king of its food chain, and if this lizard goes extinct it would collapse a whole food chain causing more extinctions.The Komodo dragon has no predators expect the human. The Komodo dragon can and will kill anything if needed and is one of the most powerful reptiles in the world.dragons are known to eat as much as their body weight worth of food and they can survive for weeks without having to eat anything. Their teeth are about 1 cm long and they resemble the teeth of a shark. They have been known to attach humans are rarely kill them. Even for their size they are fast and agile with a speed of 20 MPH. The Komodo Dragons have been on earth for about 40 million years or more. The Komodo dragon's salvia contains 50 different types of bacteria and 7 that are fatal. The Komodo dragon is at the top of its food chain making it more dangerous.
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