Topic: green iguana
Sister Islands rock iguanas mate with green iguanas causing hybrid threat
The green iguanas are breeding with Sister Islands Rock Iguanas threatening the survival of the critically endangered endemic reptile
Cayman’s invasive species under spotlight
Cayman's ongoing battles against invasive species, such as green iguanas, lionfish and feral cats, have been highlighted in the annual Virtual Island Summit, which addresses issues faced by island nations across the world.
E-guana app launched to help monitor local lizards
The National Trust of the Cayman Islands' Blue Iguana Conservation programme has launched a new free 'E-guana' app, with the aim of gathering data on all kinds of iguanas found across Cayman's three islands.
COVID gives invasive species respite from cullers
As many as 16,000 invasive green iguanas are thought to have been spared from the hooks, snares and pellets of cullers due to an unanticipated six-week suspension of the programme, brought on by COVID-19 shelter-in-place regulations, according to the Department of Environment.
Iguana culling takes a holiday break
The Department of Environment said it will be closing off its green iguana culling collections for the year from Monday, 23 Dec.
Champion of the rock iguanas
Tanja Laaser doesn’t have a cape or a spandex outfit, but when the green iguana hotline rings on Little Cayman, she answers the call.
Iguana cull marks first year
A year after it launched, the Department of Environment's island-wide cull of invasive green iguanas has removed 1,028,305 of the animals from the population.
The culling fields
Nearly a year’s worth of iguana culling has yielded “spectacular” results, according to officials at the Department of Environment, but that doesn’t mean the battle is over.
Iguana cull nears 900,000 specimens
Grand Cayman’s green iguana cullers closed out August with their busiest week since early July.
Endangered species
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Cullers eradicate a quarter of Cayman’s green iguanas
Despite a seasonal slowdown, the green iguana cull total crept beyond the 300,000 mark over the Christmas and New Year holiday period.
The green iguana gold rush
In West Bay, a man stands on the back of a flatbed truck and casts a fishing pole into the foliage. In Savannah, a sniper methodically picks off targets with a .22-caliber air rifle. In George Town, hunters with homemade poles and nooses sweep through patches of urban woodland.
DoE urges Sister Islands to fight green iguana invasion
The Cayman Islands Department of Environment is hoping to head off a green iguana population explosion in Cayman Brac and Little Cayman like the one seen on Grand Cayman, where it is estimated there are more than 1 million of the invasive reptiles.
EDITORIAL – First days: Mulling the culling debut
What appears to be going on is the result of a less-than-clear instruction from Fred Burton, head of the DoE’s terrestrial resources unit and leader of the culling project.
Mail call: Iguana cull
The islandwide green iguana cull kicks off next week. More than 340 registered Caymanians and local businesses have signed on to help rid Grand Cayman of the invasive pests.
Cornwall Consulting to manage green iguana cull
Cayman Islands company Cornwall Consulting has been selected to manage the islandwide green iguana cull project following a competitive bidding process involving five firms, government announced Wednesday.
Iguana cull
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Hundreds sign up for green iguana cull
Almost 350 people registered to take part in Grand Cayman’s islandwide green iguana cull.
“Blue” iguana
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Department of Environment conducts genetic testing of green iguanas
The Department of Environment is compiling a library of green iguana genetics to determine whether the first documented case of hybridization with the rock iguana on the Sister Islands was a fluke or a pattern.
Iguana math
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EDITORIAL – The iguana battle: Is Cayman facing a ‘cull-de-sac’?
Cayman has a serious problem that, frankly, it is not taking seriously at all.
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Green iguana meat exports to begin
A Cayman Islands company will begin exporting green iguana meat to be sold to consumers in the United States from August.
Letter: Destroy eggs to control green iguana population
Why not research the possibility of tackling the problem by dealing with the up to 70 or so eggs laid by every female iguana during a year?
Registration opens for iguana cull
Volunteer cullers have begun registering to compete for a $1,000 twice-monthly prize in Grand Cayman’s green iguana raffle.
Hybrid iguanas found on Little Cayman
The invasive green iguana species has successfully bred with the indigenous rock iguana on Little Cayman, creating a hybrid offspring scientists had thought was not possible.
Cayman’s great green iguana hunt
In the shade of a pair of ironwood trees on a long abandoned farmer’s lot, Herman Myrie shoulders his Benjamin .22 caliber air rifle and fires into the foliage.
Cull to tackle Cayman’s 500,000 green iguanas
A weeklong green iguana culling trial kicked off this week in a bid to control the population, which has been estimated to have reached half a million on Grand Cayman.
