Tokay gecko in the illegal wildlife trade
WildTrace has recorded 6 cases involving tokay gecko from public reports between 2024-01-15 and 2026-09-23, in 1 countries. 1 of them rest on an official or validated source.
CITES appendix II. Taxa covered: Gekko gecko. Counts show where this trade is reported, not where it happens: reporting is uneven between countries and languages, and cases whose reports name no place are counted but cannot be mapped.
Where tokay gecko cases are reported
- India 6
Recent cases
- Seizure · Tokay gecko · 30 geckos · Golaghat 2026-09-20 · corroborated
- Seizure · Leopard, Pangolin, Tiger, Tokay gecko, Turtles & tortoises · 12 geckos · Bengaluru 2026-09-05 · official
- Seizure · Tokay gecko · 1 live · Kaziranga 2026-08-21 · single
- Seizure · Tokay gecko · Dhemaji 2026-05-28 · single
- Seizure · Tokay gecko · 26 geckos · Guwahati 2026-05-23 · single
- Seizure · Tokay gecko · 11 geckos · Dibrugarh 2025-04-12 · single
Where seized tokay gecko came from, and where it was seized
35 shipments of tokay gecko seized or confiscated were reported to CITES since 2015 (CITES Trade Database, source code I). Counts are shipment records, not quantities, and some countries report far more completely than others.
Taken from
- Vietnam 10
- Indonesia 5
- China 3
- Thailand 2
- Hong Kong 1
Seized in
- United States 35