Human activity has spread these lizards around the world — including to the U.S., where you can find tokay geckos in both Florida and Hawaii. Tokay geckos are arboreal creatures. This means that the ...

Thousands of tokay geckos (Gekko gecko), native to South and Southeast Asia, are sold each year in Hong Kong’s traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) pharmacies. Recent studies have raised questions on ...

New research has been investigating the origins of tokay geckos in Hong Kong, both the wild ones and those sold in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) shops. Tokay geckos are one of the most ...

Washington, DC—Wildlife trafficking and the unsustainable wildlife and plant trade is a multibillion-dollar industry and a major threat to species in the United States and worldwide, according to a ...

Widespread misconceptions about the medicinal benefits of tokay geckos are leading to these common nocturnal lizards being hunted across Bangladesh. Wildlife traffickers set an exorbitant price on ...

Among the several endangered wildlife species that continue to be smuggled out of India’s Northeast is a nocturnal lizard called tokay gecko, which commands an extremely high value in the grey markets ...

A surge in demand for Tokay Geckos is leading to the "rapacious collection" of the animals in Southeast Asia," says a wildlife-protection group.... An Asian lizard that likes to come out at night has ...

With more than one million geckos estimated to be traded annually, effective implementation of this newly adopted listing could help, tokay geckos benefit from increased monitoring and regulation of ...

This is the moment a defiant tokay gecko refused to let go of a snake trying to squeeze it to death. Pupils at the Wat Suwan Khiri School were about to go to the toilet when they found both reptiles ...

Tokay geckos are one of the most charismatic reptile species in Asia and the second largest gecko species in the world. They also are one of the most heavily traded reptiles, with millions exported ...