A final push and it was all over. 20th October saw the last head emerge from the last egg of 2003. A record-breaking total of eighty-four brand new baby Blue Iguanas alive and well. An opportunity for Fred to breathe a sigh of relief, and recover some of his kitchen from beneath the incubators and [...]
Undeveloped development
Editor
Wednesday 14th January, 2009 Posted: 16:11 CIT (21:11 GMT)
As incredible as it might seem, there is a plan, devised by the Cayman Islands Government, to build an extension to the East–West Arterial highway through the Mastic Trail Reserve and the Salina Reserve.
This is not a new [...]
A very happy New Year to all you Blue Iguana supporters and followers! We passed into 2009 with Cayman’s local Esso company raising money for the Blue Iguanas by donating a few cents for every gallon of gasoline sold at all their stations throughout the Cayman Islands. Huge banners, funds-raised ‘thermometers’, staff shirts and Blue [...]
A team of volunteers put some finishing touches to four new Iguana breeding pens over two weekends in May. Descending on the Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park with brushes and rollers in hand, the group dispatched several buckets of “lunar green” paint onto the dull grey concrete walls.
Conyers Releases ‘Connie’ into the Wild
Director of BIRP Fred Burton shows a Blue Iguana to Janelle (left) and Javahn.
As part of its ongoing support for the Blue Iguana Recovery Program (BIRP), law firm Conyers Dill & Pearman released its sponsored Blue Iguana into the National Trust Salina Reserve on 23 November.
Conyers staffer Tracy Cuff [...]
Step up efforts to save the Blues
EDITOR
Tuesday 9th December, 2008 Posted: 16:01 CIT (21:01 GMT)
There is a segment of our culture that is in desperate need of help to ensure its species doesn’t disappear from the face of the Earth all together.
The population of the Grand Cayman Blue [...]
Connie released at Salina
Tuesday 9th December, 2008 Posted: 16:13 CIT (21:13 GMT)
Cayman law firm Conyers Dill & Pearman recently participated in the release of its sponsored Blue Iguana into the protected parklands of the National Trust Salina Reserve.
Tracy Cuff holds Connie before releasing the iguana in the Salinas. [...]
Land needed to save Blues
By Cliodhna Doherty, cliodhna@cfp.ky
Tuesday 9th December, 2008 Posted: 16:49 CIT (21:49 GMT)
Additional land must be found in the eastern districts if the Grand Cayman Blue Iguana is to survive.
The third phase of a strategic plan to save the unique and endangered iguana has been [...]
We now have a new Strategic Plan to save the Blue Iguana. Four days of meetings with our local and international partners came to a close last night, and our friends and colleagues John Binns (IRCF) and Stephan Funk (Durrell Wildlife) headed home this morning. Tandora Grant (San Diego Zoo) leaves us on Tuesday. Here [...]
PRESS RELEASE
5th Decmber, 2008
Plan to save Grand Cayman’s Blue Iguana now hinges on new protected area In a four-day meeting, the third version of an evolving strategic plan to save Grand Cayman’s Blue Iguana, has just been formulated. The long-term vision of the Blue Iguana Recovery Programme is now almost within reach.
The updated plan now [...]
