Army of islanders to protect gecko the size of a paperclip

Their work, carried out in sync with the government’s forestry department and international conservationists including Fauna and Flora International (FFI), has been credited with an 80% increase in population. A recent survey indicated numbers of the gecko soared from 10,000 in 2018 to around 18,000 now – outnumbering the island’s human population six-fold.