Six premises were raided and 16 wildlife specimens were seized. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Reports stated that two lizard species were among them; an Argentine black-and-white tegu and yellow-headed day geckos.

A leopard tortoise and spiny-tailed monitor were among the endangered animals seized by the National Parks Board (NParks) in a series of coordinated raids on Oct 9.In a statement released on Monday ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed listing the earless monitor lizard as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act today following a 2022 petition from the Center for ...

BIG LAKE RANCH, British Columbia — Canada is a major player in the international reptile trade and may participate in the illegal wildlife trade of imperiled species, according to a new study ...

Research indicates the invasive lizards are gradually moving North, including one spotted this month in Duval County.

The confiscated animals included endangered species such as yellow-headed day geckos, a Leopard Tortoise and a spiny-tailed ...

WEBSTER, Mass. — A community in Massachusetts is on the lookout for Goose. But Goose is not a bird; it’s a water monitor lizard with an avian name. Goose, a 5-foot-long lizard, escaped his home in ...

Residents in a Connecticut town are on alert after a pet water monitor that escaped from a Webster home last week was spotted near a local pond. A search was launched on July 18 after “Goose,” the ...

CHENNAI: A monitor lizard, a species protected under Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, was allegedly beaten to ...