A survey of the lizard fauna of maquis forest habitat on the Vale Inco mine site
 (20 to 30 year plan of development)

This report is from the third of studies undertaken to determine the species diversity of lizards in canopied maquis habitats, primarily maquis paraforestier and maquis preforestier, across the area encompassed by the Vale Nouvelle-Calédonie (VNC) mine site on the Goro Plateau. Earlier studies investigated the lizard fauna of canopied maquis in the area of the 5-10 year plan of development (Sadlier and Swan, 2009) and the 10-20 year plan of development (Sadlier and Swan, 2010). The study presented here investigated the lizard fauna of canopied maquis in the area of the 20- 30 year plan of development.