As the summer heat builds, our incubators are filling once more with abundant Blue Iguana eggs from the captive facility and from the free-roamers which are nesting again in the Botanic Park. Over a hundred youngsters from the 2008 hatch, meanwhile, are reaching the size when they are due for release.
This year, we plan to [...]

Some time has now passed since a little splash of publicity announced that the Cayman Islands had gained a new protected area. Since then there hasn’t been much news about the Blue Iguana Reserve – as we are calling it for now.
From the Cabinet decision, to negotiating the lease agreement, to signing the lease, has [...]

At a wonderful launch evening at Rackams CBlue restaurant in Grand Cayman, hosted by Greenlight Re, “The Little Blue Book – a short history of the Grand Cayman Blue Iguana” has been launched and is now available.

Our three-week structured survey of the released Blue Iguanas in the Salina Reserve this year, has been finished ahead of schedule and exactly as planned. The weather was helpful, the team carried through valiantly, and we have a data set which should contain answers to key questions, and no doubt a few surprises too.
One surprise [...]

The Salina Blues team are now into the third and final week of this year’s Blue Iguana population survey. If the weather holds, we will complete the formal line survey work on Sunday, and then will use some of the remaining days before the team members start heading home to resolve a few remaining mysteries, [...]

Week one of the Salina Blues survey has been successfully completed, with 35 Blue Iguanas recorded so far on the survey routes.

The Salina Blues population survey teams are now fully geared up and ready to go: the survey kicks off tomorrow morning, 2nd March 2010.

Last December’s sixth annual release of young Blue Iguanas brought the total we have released into the Salina Reserve on Grand Cayman, over the 300 mark.
It is time now to take a detailed look at how all those iguanas are doing. We know they started breeding in the wild in 2006, but how successful has natural breeding been in raising the total wild population even further?

“The Little Blue Book – a short history of the Grand Cayman Blue Iguana” will be launched in mid April 2010. Pre-ordering is now available at www.IRCF.org/LBB/

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.