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General tropical! It's got different areas in different sections. It's called the Eden Project!
Wow, that is a very cool project. I had never heard of this! I will go check it out one day ^_^
Looking into it... I do think it is a Hemidactylus platyurus that was introduced by accident with the plants when the Eden Project started.
The gecko you have encountered could be a descendant of Tommy, the first wildlife guest: https://www.eden-project.co.uk/tommy.htm
I found a few other encounters with what appears to be the family and friends of this gecko, also at the Eden Project:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/hh27/6283695173
https://twitter.com/edenproject/status/979433244394434560
https://twitter.com/EdenProject/status/886314632784293891
https://twitter.com/EdenProject/status/1484949097215897608
Comparing the Flickr image with this image of Hemidactylus platyurus, and to other images I can find online, I think that it is a very close match....
Haha! Amazing! He was in the lower tropics by a waterfall. They're actually opening up Edens around the world!!
https://www.edenproject.com/new-edens
Oh cool! England is the closest to me at the moment, though :p
Found some sources that claim the species is Hemidactylus mabouia and that they were introduced on purpose for pest control. That is not unlikely, but I can't an official document or statement from The Eden Project describing the species that they introduced on purpose!
https://twitter.com/Cercopithecid10/status/1524694286813605888
https://www.zoochat.com/community/media/green-anole-10-july-2018-at-the-eden-project.406325/
(And, sorry for all of these Twitter links that are now hardly accessible without an account ๐ )
I know there is a display with plastic replicas of the domes denziens. I'll have to take a closer look next time as it's a local favourite spot. :) The articles I was poking around at were very generalist and you dug up way more than me.
Hahaha, please report back when you do! ๐
Will do!!