Meet the lovely jewelled gecko, a rare and unusual reptile found only on the South Island of New Zealand. The jewelled gecko is known for its distinct and beautiful colours, which vary depending on ...

Associate Conservation Minister Nicky Wagner says the return of two illicitly taken native jewelled geckos to New Zealand shores sends a clear message that wildlife crime will not be tolerated. The ...

We examined relationships between livestock grazing and the activity of introduced rodents and population density of Jewelled Geckos, Naultinus gemmeus (Diplodactylidae) on the Otago Peninsula, South ...

Manawa, the jeweled gecko who made headlines after he was smuggled out of New Zealand to Germany and returned to Otago years later has had to be put down. Otago Museum and Te Rūnanga o Ōtākou ...

Three foreign visitors have been arrested and charged with taking or possessing protected jewelled geckos estimated to be worth $192,000 from the Otago Peninsula. The 16 animals were found in a ...

Globally, translocations of herpetofauna have been notoriously unsuccessful. Most previous translocations of green geckos (Naultinus spp.) have failed to result in population establishment. However, ...

A happy homecoming for a Dunedin taonga this morning. A jewelled gecko from the Otago Peninsula has been welcomed to the Otago Museum with a powhiri this morning. It's one of two that were smuggled ...

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 ...

Manawa, the jeweled gecko who made headlines after he was smuggled out of New Zealand to Germany and returned to Otago years later has had to be put down. Otago Museum and Te Rūnanga o Ōtākou ...