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.

“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/

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 [...]

Our recently vacant Blue Iguana Warden position has been filled quickly, thanks to a top-rate slate of applicants! Ricky Ebanks is our new face at the Blue Iguana captive facility, and he’s fast learning the ropes from our ‘veteran,’ experienced Warden John Marotta. Ricky is a native Caymanian who spent much of his early life [...]

A very happy New Year to all you Blue Iguana supporters and followers! 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 [...]

We now have a new Strategic Plan to save the Blue Iguana. Four days of meetings with our local and international partners came to a close last night, and our friends and colleagues John Binns (IRCF) and Stephan Funk (Durrell Wildlife) headed home this morning. Tandora Grant (San Diego Zoo) leaves us on Tuesday. Here [...]