The International Iguana Foundation has awarded eight grants for 2023, for a total of $91,105. That includes two large-tier grants, which we’re awarding for the first time. Congratulations to all our recipients, who are making a difference in iguana species conservation!

Large Tier (up to $25,000)

Saving the Swamper (Ctenosaura bakeri): Conservation, Monitoring, and Education

Daniela Sansur, Kanahau Wildlife Conservation Organization

Grant amount: $24,920

Consolidation of Community-based Conservation and Research for the Motagua Spiny-tailed Iguana (Ctenosaura palearis) in Guatemala

Johana Gil and Daniel Ariano, Heloderma Natural Reserve/Zootropic

Grant amount: $24,808

Small Tier (up to $10,000)

Armchair Conservation: Monitoring Galápagos Marine Iguana and Plastic Pollution Using Drones and Citizen Science

Jen Jones, Galápagos Conservation Trust

Grant amount: $10,000

Advancing Conservation of Ricord´s Iguana  (Cyclura ricordii) and Rhinoceros Iguana  (Cyclura cornuta)  in Dominican Republic and Haiti

Ernst Rupp, Grupo Jaragua

Grant amount: $9,500

Movement Ecology and Reproductive Migration of a Critically Endangered Iguana (Ctenosaura bakeri)

Josiah Townsend, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Research Institute

Grant amount: $8,341

Mitigating Threats to the Lesser Antilles Iguana (Iguana delicatissima) in Its Last Stronghold – Dominica

Jeanelle Brisbane, Wild Dominique

Grant amount: $6,300

Caribbean Iguana eDNA (CIE): Conserving Iguana Diversity and Safeguarding Against Invasions through Terrestrial eDNA Innovations

Kathryn Stewart, Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), Leiden University

Grant amount: $3,936

Securing the Future of the Saint Lucia Iguana: A Newly Described Subspecies on the Brink of Extinction

Luke Jones, Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust

Grant amount: $3,300