Stepping into the new Blue Iguana Reserve 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 taken time, and admittedly the process hasn’t been material for compelling news. But the lease has now been signed, and registered, and the National Trust for the Cayman Islands is the lessee of 190 acres of Crown land in the East Interior of Grand Cayman,...
Programme News
The Little Blue Book has launched!
At a wonderful launch evening at Rackams CBlue restaurant in Grand Cayman, hosted by Greenlight Re, “The Little Blue Book – a short history of the Grand Cayman Blue Iguana” has been launched and is now available.
Blue Iguanas land the Blue Turtle Award!
Cayman Islands’ conservationist is the first winner of JNCC’s Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies Nature Conservation Award
New Blue Iguana Video
Cayman Islands Govt Info Services
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.
Blue Iguana Tales
Fall Edition 2008
Actions on May 3rd, 2008 that continue to defy comprehension lead to the violent deaths of seven of our iguanas. The news went worldwide within a matter of days and catapulted our shell-shocked team unexpectedly and ill-prerared into the public glare.
Digger, Yellow, Sara, and Eldemire were found dead within the confines of the captive breeding [...]
Blues in the Local Press
Award for Blues ProtectorThe UK government’s advisory body on conservation has awarded Fred Burton, director of the Blue Iguana Recovery Programme, the new annual Blue Turtle award for his work in preventing the extinction of one of the world’s most endangered species.
Press releases
PR31032009 – New Nature Reserve for Critically Endangered Blue IguanaPRESS RELEASE
31st March, 2009
The Cayman Islands Government has taken decisive action to help save the world’s most endangered iguana. Almost 200 acres of government-owned prime dry shrubland habitat in the east interior of the Grand Cayman is being protected, to provide area for restoration of the Grand Cayman Blue Iguana, Cyclura lewisi.
The Grand Cayman Blue [...]
Blues in the Int'l Press
Boost for Critically Endangered Blue Iguana
WILDLIFE EXTRA.com
March 2009. The Cayman Islands Government has taken decisive action to help save the world’s most endangered iguana. Almost 200 acres of government-owned prime dry shrubland habitat in the east interior of the Grand Cayman is being protected, to provide area for restoration of the Grand Cayman Blue Iguana…
