{"id":29209,"date":"2018-10-24T17:35:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T12:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=29209"},"modified":"2018-10-24T17:35:06","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T12:05:06","slug":"trade-in-tokay-geckos-continues-in-bengal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/trade-in-tokay-geckos-continues-in-bengal\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade in Tokay geckos continues in Bengal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Trade in Tokay geckos continues in Bengal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>News:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Border Security Force have reported the smuggling of three <strong>Tokay geckos<\/strong> from West Bengal\u2019s Malda and Murshidabad districts.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Important facts:<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>About Tokay geckos<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-236 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/currentaffairs.forumias.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/images.jpg?resize=275%2C183\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tokay gecko is a lizard species with orange-spotted blue-grey skin.<\/li>\n<li>It is protected under the <strong>Schedule III of the Indian Wildlife Protection Act<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Tokay geckos are one of the largest geckos alive today which can grow up to 14 inches in length.<\/li>\n<li>Tokay geckos are insectivorous, and eat pests such as cockroaches.<\/li>\n<li>Tokay geckos communicate vocally to find members of the opposite sex during the breeding season.<\/li>\n<li>Tokay geckos are found from northeast India to the Indo-Australian Archipelago and tropical rain forests.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>The Siliguri Frontier of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) in north Bengal seized 24 tokay geckos between November 2017 and April 2018.<\/li>\n<li>The Expert from wildlife have raised the concern arguing that:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>The seizures at border checkpoints would yield no results unless there was some intervention at the forests and habitats from where the animal was seized.<\/li>\n<li>Smugglers raised false hype about the medicinal value of these wildlife species to create a demand for them both within and outside India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li>Wildlife Crime Control Bureau said the high rate of smuggling of Tokay geckos have led them to bring under the Schedule III of wildlife protection Act.<\/li>\n<li>Tokay geckos which is above 13 cm in length and over 350 grams in weight fetch exorbitantly high prices in China and parts of South Asia.<\/li>\n<li>May 22 is observed as <strong>International Day for Biological Diversity.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trade in Tokay geckos continues in Bengal News: Border Security Force have reported the smuggling of three Tokay geckos from West Bengal\u2019s Malda and Murshidabad districts. Important facts: About Tokay geckos Tokay gecko is a lizard species with orange-spotted blue-grey skin. It is protected under the Schedule III of the Indian Wildlife Protection Act. Tokay&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/trade-in-tokay-geckos-continues-in-bengal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trade in Tokay geckos continues in Bengal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}