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Submitted to HN: Trade bans and local conservation helped save a dazzling blue gecko https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/how-trade-bans-and-local-conservation-helped-save-a-dazzling-blue-gecko/ Article URL: …
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Beauty is a curse — at least for the turquoise dwarf gecko of central Tanzania. Between December 2004 and July 2009, demand for this gecko from collectors in Europe boomed, leading to the capture and export of an estimated 40,000 of these striking reptiles from Tanzania. “I remember when I saw them for the first […]
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How trade bans and local conservation helped save a dazzling blue gecko
Dan Moore