July 21, 2006
Endangered by Research
Poachers mine the scientific literature for the locations of newly discovered animals
The gecko could have sprung from the mind of Dr. Seuss: It had black spots. It had white spots. It had stripes upon those spots. The nine-inch-long lizard with bright-orange eyes was new to science in the late 1990s, when L. Lee Grismer, a professor of biology at La Sierra University, first encountered it.
But now, doing nothing more than research, he may have indirectly wiped out the gecko
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