By Bina Mani, Caymanian Press
The Blue Iguana Conservation Fund has been established as an exclusive account to implement the Blue Iguana Species Recovery Plan, which is a comprehensive strategic plan being carried out under the guidance of local and international experts, the release points out.National Trust Iguana Programme Director Fred Burton (right) provides the details [...]

By Fred Burton
Mr. Burton says a portion of the increase in breeding success of the released iguanas is because the females lay more eggs as they grow older. More significantly, this year all five nests that were found were excavated, and the eggs were incubated artificially. “This has produced a much better hatching success than [...]

DALLAS MORNING NEWS
By: Jacquielynn Floyd
FORT WORTH Rick Hudson, a very nice guy with reptiles on the brain, was a little disturbed that his SOS about the plight of the Grand Cayman blue iguana didn’t bring a stampede of reporters clamoring for a news conference. How can the world turn a deaf ear to a lizard in desperate trouble…

EXPRESS NEWS – RIO GRANDE BUREAU
By: Alison Gregor
BROWNSVILLE His name is Godzilla, and he resides at the Gladys Porter Zoo. But his awe-inspiring name may not be enough to save an iguana species on the brink of extinction, though biologists are hoping a mate will do the trick. Formerly a single iguana, Godzilla recently was introduced to another Grand Cayman blue iguana at this zoo on the U.S.-Mexico border, which specializes in endangered species…

By Kathy Paur
Tribune staff reporter
Published August 9, 2002
Three blue iguanas at the Shedd Aquarium have emerged as crucial players in a breeding program to save their species–newly designated the most endangered lizard in the world–from extinction.
Only 10 to 25 of the lizards, native to the Caribbean island of Grand Cayman, are alive in the wild, [...]

Extinction is threatening the blue iguana, but donations could save this species
By PAUL BOURGEOIS
Fort Worth & Region
Star-Telegram Staff Writer
FORT WORTH – Without a quick $200,000, the Grand Cayman blue iguana’s prospects for survival are bleak, according to the Fort Worth-based International Iguana Foundation.
The Grand Cayman blue iguana, which can grow up to 5 feet long, [...]

Report says blue iguana population decreasing drastically
AP – 7/26/2002
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands – A new study showing a drastic decline in the population of the Grand Cayman blue iguana has prompted a U.S. foundation to take preventative action, the Cayman Islands’ National Trust said.
The Texas-based International Iguana Foundation announced in a statement Wednesday that it [...]

Prompted by alarming new statistics on the population of the Grand Cayman blue iguana, scientists sponsored by the International Iguana Foundation (IIF) are mobilizing a response to this crisis. Extinction of the blue iguana is not inevitable, but the conservation community and its many supporters worldwide must act decisively and quickly to prevent it.
Donations (financial [...]

Editorial in Caymanian Compass, July 17, 2002
The news is grim indeed. If the situation is allowed to slide as at present, without active intervention, a magnificent national species will go the way of the dodo, and within the next five years.
The latest survey undertaken by the National Trusts Blue Iguana Conservation Programme foretells a bleak [...]

Blue Iguanas living wild in the East End interior are very nearly extinct..
Dateline: July 16, 2002 ~ Grand Cayman
Contact Name: Fred Burton
July 16, 2002, Grand Cayman – Blue Iguanas living wild in the East End interior are very nearly extinct, according to a survey just completed by the National Trust’s Blue Iguana Conservation Project.
The wild [...]