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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Tomorrow (Sunday May 31st) the Blues captive facility will be getting a lot of international attention – delegates to a UK Overseas Territories environmental conference are arriving in Grand Cayman this weekend, and fifty or so participants will be spending Sunday morning in the QE II Botanic Park. We’ll take them in several smaller groups to [...]