Endangered Blue Dragon Moves To Worlds Oldest Zoo

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This fantastic footage shows an endangered blue spotted tree monitor from Indonesia which is one of two that have now taken up residence at the world's oldest zoo in the Austrian capital Vienna.

Schoenbrunn Zoo said that the blue-coloured lizards, which normally live in rainforests on the island of Batanta in Indonesia, are regarded as endangered because they are not found anywhere else apart from the 450 square-kilometres island.

With its spectacular colour, it is a popular lizard to be targeted by traffickers, which has severely affected numbers in the wild and it is also suffering from deforestation in its homeland.

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