Grand Cayman Blue Iguana

The Blue Iguana Recovery Program (BIRP) is working desperately to prevent the extinction of the world’s most critically endangered lizard, the Grand Cayman Blue Iguana. Having undergone a dramatic wild population decline over the past ten years with only 10 - 25 left in the wild, the primary hope for the blue iguana is through the expansion of a well-managed captive breeding, headstarting and release program.

Since 2002 the IIF has raised and contributed over $80,000 in support of the Blue Iguana Program to expand and manage the captive breeding facility and to support the ongoing release program. A healthy reintroduced population of blue iguanas has been established now at the QE II Botanic Park, and a second population is being established at the Salina Reserve, a protected property owned by the National Trust for the Cayman Islands. Twenty four iguanas were released there in January 2005, funded in part by a grant from the IIF. Funds are desperately needed to continue this vital work and to help ensure a future for this remarkably beautiful lizard. You can contribute to this and other iguana conservation projects by clicking on "Contribute to a Project."

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Select here to donate to the Grand Cayman Blue Iguana program.