Vertebrate zoology

Nanaimo News Now reports the invasive European wall lizard has pushed as far north as Campbell River.

Gavin Hanke, Curator of Vertebrate Zoology at the Royal BC Museum, estimates between eight hundred thousand and a million in the province, the great majority of them on Vancouver Island.

His own Victoria garden went from a few in twenty-nineteen to around a hundred, and he doesn't expect this to be undone.

"They're spreading fast and furious," he says.