Some time has now passed since a little splash of publicity announced that the Cayman Islands had gained a new protected area. Since then there hasn’t been much news about the Blue Iguana Reserve – as we are calling it for now.
From the Cabinet decision, to negotiating the lease agreement, to signing the lease, has [...]

Last December’s sixth annual release of young Blue Iguanas brought the total we have released into the Salina Reserve on Grand Cayman, over the 300 mark.
It is time now to take a detailed look at how all those iguanas are doing. We know they started breeding in the wild in 2006, but how successful has natural breeding been in raising the total wild population even further?

The Blue Iguana captive facility is now, as we anticipated, packed with more iguanas than ever before. “It’s a good problem to have” we keep saying to each other, as John, Alberto and the Team Blue volunteers scavenge the last of our oldest and most damaged hatchling cages and build anew, to keep pace with emergence of clutch after clutch from the incubators.