Saving An Iguana Four Miles Offshore

[jberryhill]

9. This is the situation in Cayman

The green iguana population was heading toward 1.5M on Grand Cayman, and squeezing out the endangered native blue iguanas, which are going extinct.

That is 1.5M animals on an island about 35 by 7 miles, and with around 60,000 people.

https://caymannewsservice.com/2019/01/keep-iguana-cull-track/



The Department of Environment is making another call for more registered green iguana cullers, as the number of the invasive species being killed has begun to decline. The current group of cullers has managed to remove around 350,000 iguanas during the island-wide effort to massively diminish the population and reduce the negative impact they are having on Cayman’s unique natural habitats. And while that is an impressive number, given the starting point of around 1.5 million iguanas, the DoE was hoping that even more would have been removed at this point because breeding season is just around the corner.