Three protected native geckos have been returned to the wild after years in illegal captivity. West Coast green gecko. Credit: Matt Davis, DOC. The release of the lizards in the Southern Alps came ...

Following the exciting discovery in January 2024 of a Nationally Vulnerable Nelson Green Gecko (Naultinus stellatus) population on Tākaka Hill, Tākaka Hill Biodiversity Group Trust, in collaboration ...

University of Otago researchers have added another piece to the puzzle about how best to translocate New Zealand lizards for conservation purposes - confine them. In a paper just published in the New ...

The discovery of threatened Nelson Green Geckos on Tākaka Hill on Saturday evening has given hope for the species’ survival. Charmaine and Norman Petereit of the Tākaka Hill Biodiversity Group Trust ...

A previously poached West Coast green gecko has been seen alive and well more than a year after being released back into the wild. The gecko was one of three protected native females illegally taken ...

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Researchers outlined how they translocated 19 barking geckos to Mana Island, using the method of penned release - enclosing them in a 100m² pen for three months so they get used to the site and ...