Who is stealing them? Why? For what purpose? Who is buying? What an impressively useless article void of any important information.

For those wondering, it's for hocus-pocus "traditional" medicinal nonsense elsewhere in Asia, like Traditional Chinese Medicine, which is solely driving many global species to extinction.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/indonesia-foils-il...

Anyway, Komodo is very remote and there's no easy trip there and back, it's either a multi-day seasick inducing trip from Bali or a puddle jumper over to Flores before riding a boat for a couple of hours so you can watch a guide toss some meat slop at the lizards and maybe push one away with a stick if it gets too close. Hard to imagine how closing the area off to tourists is going to help anything.