The Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman and its guests raised $3,500 over the summer to buy equipment for the Blue Iguana Recovery Program at the Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park.
The check was presented to the program on Thursday.
Staff at the hotel hosted special Cardio Tennis classes and sold Blue Iguana cupcakes and plush toys to raise the funds.
The Blue Iguana Recovery Program aims to protect and boost the population of the critically endangered Blue Iguana in the Cayman Islands. The wild population of the Blue Iguana was considered “functionally extinct” by 2005, but the recovery program, which includes the breeding of iguanas and their release into protected reserves in East End, has led to more than 800 of the species now living in the wild.
The target of the program is to eventually have 1,000 Blue Iguanas in the wild.
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