Okanagan gecko producer takes issue with B.C. city's resolution to ban exotics

A resolution being brought to the Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM) annual general meeting could see most reptiles and exotics banned in B.C.

The resolution is being brought forward by the City of Port Moody to ban all mobile live animal programs and "prohibit the import, keeping, breeding and transport of all exotic species. Port Moody is also asking that the existing negative list of prohibited species be replaced with a positive list of permitted species.

For Kelowna's Michael Wood, the resolution would put an end to his business Okanagan Days .

Wood keeps and produces day geckos. He said the ones he keeps are on endangered species lists, but most are not of high concern.

"However, lygodactylus williamsi... They are critically endangered," Wood said of one of the species he breeds