Cayman Islands’ conservationist is the first winner of JNCC’s Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies Nature Conservation Award

The Blue Iguana nesting season got underway on the weekend 16-17th May, just ahead of this summer’s first heavy rains, and a full month ahead of what used to be the normal schedule. We now have 56 eggs incubating from six different nests, with more on the way, and we are still only at the [...]

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Heather Hopson explores how a once near extinct species of Iguanas has thrived thanks to the help of the Blue Iguana Recovery Programme in the Cayman Islands.

The artificial retreats that we have been using to release captive-reared Blue Iguanas to the wild, are about to undergo an upgrade. The young Blue Iguanas now free in the Salina Reserve are fast outgrowing the wooden “Mark 5” retreats they were released in. Research last year indicates that the iguanas are beginning to disperse [...]

At the end of February we said a sad farewell to one of our Blue Iguana Wardens, Cameron Richardson. Cam had been with us first as a regular volunteer, and came on staff in summer last year. Missing his friends, family and roots in his native Australia, Cam very reluctantly decided although he loved his [...]

We passed into 2009 with Cayman’s local Esso company raising money for the Blue Iguanas by donating a few cents for every gallon of gasoline sold at all their stations throughout the Cayman Islands. Huge banners, funds-raised ‘thermometers’, staff shirts and Blue Iguana tote bags made it certain that nobody driving around could miss the [...]

The captive breeding and head-starting facility for the Grand Cayman Blue Iguanas, located in the QE II Botanic Park, is no longer viewable from the Park’s woodland trail.
This is an unfortunate consequence of heightened security at the facility, following the killing of seven captive Blue Iguanas in May 2008 – in a case which [...]

Clean up after Hurricane Paloma Begins

Hurricane Paloma, a category 4 hurricane with sustained winds of 140 miles per hour, smashed into the Cayman Islands Saturday morning. Reports of flooding, power outages, fallen tree limbs and scattered debris were reported throughout Grand Cayman, although the Sister Islands, Cayman Brac [...]

The cages arrive in Grand Cayman

 photos by Sam Addinall

At this stage the shipment is under the small tent on the shed slab at the Captive Facility, and I plan to make a start on some assembly tomorrow, since we have immediate needs for [...]

This year’s hatch of baby Blues is up to 23 now, nine each from our new founder female Elizabeth, and free roaming female Sapphire. The other 5 came from a younger free-roaming female, Red-White. This weekend the next wave of hatching is due to start, and a few days later we expect to take delivery [...]