A large group of volunteers and well-wishers saw off the last 12 of the twenty-five young Blues to go free this year, on Sunday. Highlights were the release of little twin “Ivan” who is finally big enough to go free, and mature young female “Connie” whose freedom day had been delayed two years waiting for [...]
PLANNING THE BLUE’s FUTURE… As we prepare for the second and final release of this year’s 25 lucky Blues into the Salina Reserve, which is set for next Sunday (23rd November), we are also gearing up for a four-day meeting in the first week of December, during which our local and international partners will be [...]
National Trust highlights year’s achievements
By Hannah Reid, hannah@cfp.ky
Tuesday 18th November, 2008 Posted: 15:48 CIT (20:48 GMT)
The National Trust for the Cayman Islands’ Annual General Meeting was recently held to introduce the new Council and to highlight the organisation’s most recent achievements.
According to the former Chairperson, Carla Reid, during [...]
13 is a lucky number, at least this weekend it was. Thirteen, 2 and 3 year old Blue Iguanas from our head-start facility were released into the Salina Reserve on Sunday. Helping the B.I.R.P. staff were local volunteers Sheilagh Rickard, Stu Petch, and Sara Agnolin. We also had help from WCS Vets, Dr Paul Calle [...]
Clean up after Hurricane Paloma Begins
Hurricane Paloma, a category 4 hurricane with sustained winds of 140 miles per hour, smashed into the Cayman Islands Saturday morning. Reports of flooding, power outages, fallen tree limbs and scattered debris were reported throughout Grand Cayman, although the Sister Islands, Cayman Brac [...]
Here we go again. Securing the facility for another tropical storm, Paloma, and she’s predicted to become a Cat 1-2 by the time it reaches the South shore of Grand Cayman by Friday rush hour. This is hitting us while we’re having a 10 day rain streak. Water is already everywhere! It’s [...]
A Family Fun Day will be held on Saturday, October 4, 2008. We are encouraging everyone to bring their family and friends to this event at Cimboco from 10am-3pm. Click Here for more information.
Team Blue Summer Edition is now over having 12 international volunteers during the past four months helping in all aspects of work with our busiest breeding season to date. And two major storms passed by with out much incident, so now its business as usual at the B.I.R.P. facility. The daily feeding process is taking [...]
Hurricane Gustav passed to the North of Grand Cayman Friday night and Saturday morning, sparing the island a direct hit. The facility was generally untouched with the exception of two medium sized trees that had fallen in separate pens, A Mahogany in Ryan’s pen and a Smoke Wood in Hal and Maria’s pen. Today we [...]
It has been a busy first couple of weeks for our new Blue Iguana Warden, Cameron Richards. Since Wednesday we have been preparing for storm Gustav with the help of our three international volunteers, Karen Corsetti from Georgia, Stacey Ellerston from Wisconsin, and Luiza Passos, from Brazil. All the animals have been fed and watered [...]
