The comments, updates, information, etc shared on this page comes directly from the individuals working in the Blue Iguana Recovery Program. They include John Marotta, and Samantha Hicks. You may also see postings here by other volunteers, visitors and representatives of the program.
81 newly hatched blue iguanas have made their way to our facility. This number doubles our “head-start” animal population plus three to 159. In the next week we will have A LOT of mouths to feed. The babies are born with some nutrients from the egg yolk to sustain them for a [...]
Math is not one of my strong subjects however even I was pretty sure something was amiss this afternoon when I opened up the plastic box containing BBB’s eggs 6-8 and four iguanas popped out. At second glance it was possible to see that one of them was much, much smaller than the others [...]
With the year moving quickly from breeding and egg laying season to hatching season the captive breeding facility is prepared for the introduction of well over 100 new mouths to feed. Over the past two weeks we have assembled 96 head start cages and furnished them with local cliff rock and driftwood. They are sitting [...]
FIRST HATCH FOR 2008 — after days of anticipation, the first egg of 2008 is hatching! It’s one of Deborah’s two viable eggs this year, sired by Billy. Although we are almost sure Billy and Deborah bred in 2006, this is the first 100% confirmed offspring by Billy, bringing him formally into the ranks of [...]
91 eggs are safe in the incubators. With more to come. Bitter and O R O have laid their eggs in some new top soil we put by the facility. While I was off the Isalnd int’l Volunteer Angie Gamber trapped a long-time free roamer “Wallflower” in an adjacent property and brought her to our [...]
Even though we have 85 eggs in our incubators, breeding and egg lying season is far from over. There are three females underground depositing eggs as I type this update. By the end of this week we should shatter the 100 egg goal with help from Arlington, Maria and Carley. Deborah looks like she [...]
My first day back from holiday was a productive one, almost as productive as the pregnant iguanas were last week. As I stated in yesterdays post; Bitter and Orange/Red/Orange both laid their eggs in the new soil at the breeding facility. But to my surprise upon return I noticed that Ruth has laid eggs on [...]
Good news about eggs!!! Today, with help from international volunteer Angie Gamber, I excavated six healthy, fertile looking Blue Iguana eggs from mother Arlington and father, recently deceased, Matthius who was one of the seven animals killed in last months attack. At least he will be genetically represented for future generations. Moms is recuperating and [...]
John and I are now both back in the US after being in Grand Cayman (1 week – Sandy) and (2 weeks – John). We want to thank everyone for their generosity and support – including IRCF member support!
I am including 3 images that I feel captured very different segments of the trip [...]
The Hurleys Group very kindly donated 47 three gallon water jugs which Sarah Agnolin (of the Ambassadors of the Environment at the Ritz) and I loaded into the truck and gingerly drove to the AOTE headquarters, terrified that at any point we’d go a little too fast or that a gust of wind would blow [...]
