Animal rights campaigners traditionally attack reptile keeping in one of three ways.

But they have begun to use a new weapon that's even more dangerous and could ban the keeping of all but a few species of reptiles.

Rob Pilley from Rob's Wild Adventures explains how crested geckos are just one example of private keepers doing heroic work to further our knowledge about reptiles. It’s fair to say that private keepers probably saved the crested gecko from extinction.

Slimy, Horrible Creatures tells the story of how a tiny minority of extremists hijacked the law-making process, and how the result can affect every reptile keeper on the planet.