Our Ancestors Took Down the Wooly Mammoth...

...now it's our turn (link):

JAKARTA (Reuters Life!) - A tiny Indonesian lizard has become big business for impoverished villagers in Indonesia, where growing Asian demand for reptile-based traditional medicines has driven a boom in gecko farming.

Comment: It's the gecko, the same as stars in those tiresome insurance commercials. The teaser paragraph quoted above says "farming," but from the story I surmise that we are still at the stage of capture & process. "Farming" would seem to be a normal next step; something to do with all those old ostrich ranches (just add water). I understand there's an order pending from three witches in Scotland.

H/t John, who has his eye out for government gecko subsidies in Kansas.