Blue Iguana Recovery Program

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2009 Hatching in Progress!

Aug 7th, 2009 | By DirectorFred | Category: Director's Blog

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 new and latest Species Recovery Plan for the Blues

Jul 12th, 2009 | By DirectorFred | Category: Director's Blog

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 [...]



Blues egg tally already over 100

Jun 18th, 2009 | By DirectorFred | Category: Director's Blog

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 [...]



Environmental Conference visiting the Blues

May 30th, 2009 | By DirectorFred | Category: Director's Blog

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 [...]