User talk:GeckoDan19

Hi there, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your edits to the wildlife smuggling article, especially updating the list of recent import prosecutions. I've cleaned up some of the referencing, and edited back the language to what was supported by the citations: "work closely together" "wide variety of species", "often resulting in convictions" – for the last one, we'd need to provide information that lots of convictions have resulted, not just the one mentioned in the news story. It's important that all claims are supported by references, especially general claims like those. I've also clarified the statement you deleted about a lack of convictions since 2012, to make it clearer that it's just attempts to smuggle wildlife out of NZ, and used Amber Allott's NZGeo article as a source.

Do you have a background in or connection to wildlife conservation? There is plenty of work needed to improve the articles on NZ lizards, especially since the new field guide is out and we have a reasonably authoritative species list. Happy to collaborate with you on that if you're interested. Cheers, —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 21:36, 1 April 2020 (UTC)