{"id":4672,"date":"2014-05-15T23:11:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T23:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/?p=4672"},"modified":"2019-12-05T23:23:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T23:23:19","slug":"the-jamaican-iguana-pilot-final-report-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/2014\/05\/15\/the-jamaican-iguana-pilot-final-report-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jamaican Iguana Pilot Final Report 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IguanaPilotFinal.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IguanaPilotFinal-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"IguanaPilotFinal\" class=\"wp-image-4673\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Following another successful campaign during the 2011-2012 period, the JIRG once again recorded a\u00a0record year for recovering the Critically Endangered Jamaican iguana during the 2012-2013 period. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most\u00a0notably, we recorded another record year for females nesting at the primary communal nesting sites &#8212; 53!\u00a0This represents a 6-fold increase over the original (core) nesting population documented in 1991, and\u00a0constitutes the only measure of abundance that can be compared to the early years of the conservation\u00a0effort. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This dramatic recovery is presumably attributable to two primary interventions aimed at\u00a0MITIGATING THE THREAT OF INVASIVE ALIEN SPECIES (IAS): (1) continuous IAS predator\u00a0control in the core iguana conservation zone, and (2) the release of captive-reared, \u2018head-started\u2019 iguanas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Iguana-Pilot-Final-Report-2014.pdf\">Iguana Pilot Final Report 2014<\/a>&nbsp;(PDF)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following another successful campaign during the 2011-2012 period, the JIRG once again recorded a\u00a0record year for recovering the Critically Endangered Jamaican iguana during the 2012-2013 period. Most\u00a0notably, we recorded another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,39,58],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4672"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13379,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4672\/revisions\/13379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}