Jamaican Rock Iguana | International Iguana Foundation

2011 IIFb Grant $8,510

Increasing the Effectiveness and Output of Two Cyclura Headstart Programs Through Increased Oversight, (Cyclura collei and Cyclura pinguis)

Michael Fouraker and Kelly Bradley

$8,510

The IIF has provided funding for headstart programs for the Jamaican (C. collei) and the Anegada Iguana (C. pinguis) since 2003. Headstarting hatchling iguanas provides them with protected growth time until they are large enough to avoid predation whereby they have a higher rate of survival following release. Increased oversight will address some of the lingering issues that have reduced the effectiveness of these program historically. It is the goal of this grant to increase the number of animals available for release by 30-50% by shortening their time in captivity and improving their growth rates and survival.

2007 IIF Grant $20,000

Core Support for the Jamaican Iguana (Cyclura collei) Recovery Program

Byron Wilson

$20,000

2006 IIF Grant $2,000

Production of the Jamaican iguana Species Recovery Plan Document

Byron Wilson

$2,000

2005 IIF Grant $9,000

Jamaica Iguana Recovery Program

Byron Wilson

$9,000

Provides funding to continue this long-running field program and ensures that the primary field biologist, Rick Van Veen, remains on salary and working in Hellshire. Rick’s ongoing conservation activities include predator control, protection of nesting sites, research on ecology and habitat requirements of the iguana, monitoring released iguanas, (16 in 2005) and radio-tracking hatchling iguanas.

2004 IIF Grant $11,300

Conservation of the Critically Endangered Jamaican Iguana, Cyclura collei

Peter Vogel and Byron Wilson

$11,300

2003 IIF Grant $15,000

Jamaican Iguana Conservation and Recovery Program

Peter Vogel

$15,000

Funding for this ongoing field program will provide annual operating costs for the recovery efforts including protection of nest sites, monitoring of nesting females, collection of hatchlings for headstarting, and continued surveys and monitoring of the Hellshire Hills. These funds were held over from 2002.

2002 IIF Grant $15,000

Conservation of the Jamaican iguana

Peter Vogel and Byron Wilson

$15,000 + $6,500

A $15,000 IIF grant was awarded to Peter Vogel and the Jamaican Iguana Conservation and Research Group for yearly operating expenses for the ongoing field research and recovery program. Previously in 2002 the IIF had awarded $6,500 to Byron Wilson of the Jamaican Iguana Conservation and Research Group to continue his ongoing assessment, now in its 5th year, of the mongoose removal program in the Hellshire Hills.