Cayman News Service

Botanic Park under threat

Posted on Tue, 10/23/2012 – 17:54 in Science and Nature

(CNS): The Queen Elizabeth Botanic Park in Frank Sound is the latest important natural resource on Grand Cayman to be threatened by development. Despite significant concerns raised by the Department of Environment and the National Trust among others, the Central Planning Authority has [...]

RitzCarlton.com, Beth Tomkiw
More and more travelers are heeding the call to give back and relax while on holiday. Follow one family to Grand Cayman as they help the blue iguana and create memories of a much deeper variety. (download full story here).

Cayman Net News
Published on Wednesday, June 10, 2009
By Steven Knipp

Cayman Net News
Posted on Thu, 04/02/2009 – 22:59
The International Reptile Conservation Foundation (IRCF) has said that letters of congratulations and expressions of relief that Cayman’s endemic Blue Iguanas can be saved for the long term are pouring into their office in California as the news spreads of a new protected area in the east interior of Grand Cayman.

Cayman Net News
Published on Thursday, April 2, 2009

The Cayman Islands Government has just formally committed to protecting almost 200 acres of Crown land in the east interior of Grand Cayman, through a 99-year peppercorn lease to the National Trust.

The Blue Iguana Recovery Programme said the decision by Cabinet is linked to a European Union grant to the National Trust, for managing this area to conserve Grand Cayman Blue Iguanas in the wild, along with their unique shrubland habitat.

Cayman News Service
Posted on Wed, 04/01/2009
(CNS): Grand Cayman’s famous Blue Iguanas are one more step further away from extinction following Cabinet’s decision to allocate Crown property to the National Trust coupled with a grant from the European Union to develop the protected area, where 100 hatchling Blue Iguanas will be released in 2010.

Posted on the Cayman Islands Government Website
The decision by Cabinet is linked to a European Union grant to the National Trust, for managing this area to conserve Grand Cayman Blue Iguanas in the wild, along with their unique shrubland habitat. The grant also focuses on developing sustainable, low-impact nature tourism, education and recreation with a visitor centre and trail system.

Sunday 22nd February, 2009 Posted: 18:35 CIT (23:35 GMT)

The captive breeding facility for the Grand Cayman Blue Iguanas, located in the Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park, is no longer viewable from the Park’s woodland trail. The high–security fence is pictured near completion.

Government land protected, new home for wild Blue Iguanas
A landmark decision by the Cayman Islands Government has protected a large area of Blue Iguana habitat in the east interior of Grand Cayman.
This decision is the key which unlocks the huge potential of our strategic plan to save the Grand Cayman Blue Iguana. With this land [...]

Undeveloped development

Editor
Wednesday 14th January, 2009 Posted: 16:11 CIT (21:11 GMT)
As incredible as it might seem, there is a plan, devised by the Cayman Islands Government, to build an extension to the East–West Arterial highway through the Mastic Trail Reserve and the Salina Reserve.
This is not a new [...]