Hunting boosts lizard numbers in Australian desert
Reptiles prefer to live in places aboriginal people have burned
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HELPING FLAMES Lizards called goannas (Varanus gouldii) live in the desert of Western Australia and have larger populations where indigenous people hunt.
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