Round Island Skink Leiolopisma telfairii

The Round Island Skink, also called Telfair's Skink, is native to a few islands off Mauritius including Round Island. It nearly became extinct as humans introduced cats and rats which ate the skinks and their eggs while introduced goats and humans destroyed their vegetation and forests.

A conservation programme is establishing new populations on the small islands but the Round Island Skink remains vulnerable.