Captive Facility Blog
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.
This is a major breakthrough for the programme. Billy has to this date no confirmed offspring, despite being paired each year and as a founder this is a situation we have been desperate to remedy. Finally yesterday four of the fourteen eggs unearthed were found to be viable.
It is a extraordinary time for this to [...]
Posted on May 19th, 2008 by Samantha Hicks
More eggs today! This time from one of the QE II Botanic Park free roamers, Red-White. John and his volunteer digging team found her nest on the Woodland Trail and recovered 9 eggs, now all safely in our incubators. That brings the egg count to 33 already, and lots more on the way…
Island Vet’s Dr. Elisabeth [...]
Posted on May 17th, 2008 by Fred Burton
With death comes life and how true that is at the botanic park and what a salve it proves to be – not to mention a diversion for John, who appears at the end of every long hot day looking like a badly beaten mud wrestler…. The stats so far are this, Sunset and Juan [...]
Posted on May 16th, 2008 by Samantha Hicks
Atlantic at Governors Square will be donating 10% of All Sales on Tuesday and Wednesday (May 20-21) to the Blue Iguana Recovery Program. Download the flyer HERE.
Posted on May 16th, 2008 by Sandra