Bartsch's Iguana

(Cyclura carinata bartschi)

IUCN Red List ranking: Critically Endangered

A close relative of the Turks and Caicos iguana, this small species inhabits one tiny remote island, Booby Cay, in the southern Bahamas near Mayaguana.  Recent population surveys indicate that this population is apparently healthy, estimated at less than 1,000 individuals.   The primary threat to this population is the presence of goats that, if their numbers be allowed to greatly expand, could seriously overgraze the native plants that the iguana depend on for food and shelter. Rats are another problem and are known predators of small iguanas and their eggs. Proposed conservation measures include ridding the island of goats.

For more detailed species information, please refer to the IUCN-ISG Taxonomic Account for Bartsch's Iguana, Cyclura carinata bartschi