“Yes, but what happens to them when the TV crew has left? Skinned for shoes and sold for barbecue?”
“I don’t know… I guess it’s hard to keep something like that in a zoo…”
“Yes, they can’t put them all in zoos, and they can’t put them back in the wild because they only found them when they were cutting the forest down for development. I bet they get tied up for a few days and if no-one wants to buy them, then it’s barbie time”.
“Yes, probably”, she agreed sadly as Craig pulled the lane gate shut behind them. “Don’t talk loudly now, or we’ll scare it. Be on the look out for a big brown lizard with yellow spots. It could be on the side of a tree or on the ground in among the fallen leaves, but it will be hard to see”.
They walked down the lane between Lek’s and her mother’s houses like a
