The tokay gecko or gekko gecko, a lizard species with orange-spotted blue-grey skin, is protected under the Schedule III of the Indian Wildlife Protection Act. Data made available by the SSB says ...

A rare tokay gecko lizard and intoxicating cough syrups were seized from a medical store in Bihar's Purnea district on Wednesday, police said.

Ecologists find evidence that pet and medicine trades bring tokay geckos from across Asia into Hong Kong, impacting resident gecko populations Research highlights local and global conservation ...

A stunning reptile with a secret in its tail, the tokay gecko captivates anyone that encounters it. Native to parts of Asia and some Pacific islands, this formidable lizard has also been encountered ...

The baby blue and orange-spotted tokay gecko—whose creaky calls of to-kay provided its onomatopoeic name—have always been ubiquitous throughout Southeast Asia, southern China and India. The ...

GUWAHATI: The tokay gecko, which was already on the radar of the illegal international wildlife trade, is now reportedly under increased threat because of new research which aims to replicate the ...

When 31-year-old Sawet Numpet was walking through the woods behind the factory at which he works in Thailand, he noticed two tokay geckos honing in on a tree snake. He approached the trio, filming ...

Tokay Gecko captive breeding doesn’t add up Jakarta, Indonesia, 6th November 2015— A new TRAFFIC report questions the viability of captive-breeding operations given the go-ahead to produce millions of ...

Tokay geckos harbor bacteria that are resistant to a number of antibiotics, making them a health concern for pet owners, according to a study on geckos imported from Indonesia. The research ...

The habitat of the tokay gecko ranges from India, Nepal and Bangladesh to Indonesia, Philippines and New Guinea. Poaching of the gecko in the wild first became widespread in Southeast Asia.

State forest officials and People for Animal (PFA), Thoubal, have expressed happiness at the inclusion of the tokay gecko (Gekko gecko) under Schedule IV of the Wildlife Protection Act (WPA), 1972 ...

Tokay Gecko trade boom in South-East Asia Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 16th November 2011 —Unfounded claims of a potential cure for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is one factor behind a boom in the ...