Cayman Islands’ conservationist is the first winner of JNCC’s Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies Nature Conservation Award

The UK government’s advisory body on conservation has awarded Fred Burton, director of the Blue Iguana Recovery Programme, the new annual Blue Turtle award for his work in preventing the extinction of one of the world’s most endangered species.

Cayman News Service
Posted on Wed, 10/10/2009
(CNS): He may be cold blooded, but Gorgeous George, one of Cayman’s best known Blue Iguanas, will be extending a warm welcome to the Cayman Islands to everyone who passes through Owen Roberts international. With the help of local legal firm Walkers, the National Trust has created a stunningly attractive [...]

The Blue Iguana captive facility is now, as we anticipated, packed with more iguanas than ever before. “It’s a good problem to have” we keep saying to each other, as John, Alberto and the Team Blue volunteers scavenge the last of our oldest and most damaged hatchling cages and build anew, to keep pace with emergence of clutch after clutch from the incubators.

This year’s Blue Iguana eggs have started hatching already – we processed 40 hatchlings earlier this week and another clutch last night. Rows upon rows of hatchling cages have been readied to receive this year’s anticipated 130-plus new Blue Iguanas. We open the incubation boxes in a bath tub, as a convenient way of containing [...]

RitzCarlton.com, Beth Tomkiw
More and more travelers are heeding the call to give back and relax while on holiday. Follow one family to Grand Cayman as they help the blue iguana and create memories of a much deeper variety. (download full story here).

Our Species Recovery Plan for the Grand Cayman Blue Iguana, 2009 – 2011, is now out in (digital) print, and you can download it here. Thanks once again to John Binns at IRCF, for the document design and layout!
 
The SRP III is our new blueprint for saving our Blue Iguanas. We needed it because [...]

Our incubators are loaded again, as this year’s nesting season reaches its peak. Today we have 106 eggs incubating, and more nest excavations underway. Almost all these developing new baby Blue Iguanas are slated to go free into our new protected area in 2011, after spending two years growing to a safe survival size in [...]

Cayman Net News
Published on Wednesday, June 10, 2009
By Steven Knipp

The Blue Iguana nesting season got underway on the weekend 16-17th May, just ahead of this summer’s first heavy rains, and a full month ahead of what used to be the normal schedule. We now have 56 eggs incubating from six different nests, with more on the way, and we are still only at the [...]