Cullers bag over 850,000 greens
(CNS): The nationwide cull aimed at making a very serious dent in the invasive green iguana population has seen more than 850,000 carcasses taken to the dump since the project began some ten months ago. Despite a surge in cull numbers through May and June, with around 222,000 iguanas killed over those two months, wet weather and vacation time seems to have take a toll on the cull over the last two months.
In July cullers bagged just over 39,000 of the pesky reptiles, the lowest headcount since the cull began, and there has been a continuing decline in August, with just 22,000 carcasses taken to the dump so far this month.
When the cull began, researchers at the Department of Environment estimated that there were around 1.3 million green iguanas. The current annual count is now underway at 158 locations, where the number of iguanas and their age will be recorded. The information will then be analysed to estimate population density and total population size.
While cullers have succeeded in cutting the original numbers in half, the question now is how much the population has been able to bounce back during this year’s breeding season. The cull has certainly reduced the visibility of the greens, which is making the job harder for hunters, who now have to forage a little further to get the $5 bounty.
Category: Land Habitat, Science & Nature
We just spent 4 million dollars of community money to kill iguanas? What about exportation of the meat or the hides for other uses.
No we just throw them in the dump like how we throw everything else to poison every human and species that lives on and around this island.
The damage the animals have been more then the cost to do this? Spend this money to kill iguanas, farmers don’t make that much.
Kill the green, save the blue, kill the chickens, save the marine life but kill the lion fish.
A society of killers at least complete disregard for any other life other then there fellow humans if they still at least have respect for other humans may be at best wishful thinking.
Beating iguanas with a long stick is how we gonna do this?
Compassion…where is it?
What is the bounty for a Blue?
CNS: Even though this is probably meant as a joke, it’s worth emphasising that it is still illegal to kill a blue iguana.
Indeed CNS. I enjoy the beautiful blues and appreciate the hard work you guys put in getting the word out! Keep at it!
Can Government now turn it’s attention to our large population of feral chickens.
Totally agree. They crap everywhere, and once they pick a location they never leave.
The cats are a bigger problem
That is a problem that everyone who is affected by them should consider handling themselves. I have set up a chicken trap. I did this because the chickens were eating everything I chose to grow. I will never solve my area’s chicken problem, but I can kill and eat them and pare their numbers down.
Thanks to all the cullers! Please please keep this program going indefinitely!!!!!!
Keep up the good work cullers. This is incredibly important for the native Blue and Sister Islands Rock iguanas, as well as native birds, and crops that we all grow. The greens are terribly detrimental to the environment, and — coupled with their rapid reproduction — is probably going to make this an ongoing process for some time.
Thanks also to DOE and the Sister Islands culling teams for their work. Well done everyone.
Thank you cullers for helping control this situation!! I’m delighted to have trees flourishing in my garden again and no iguana mess in the pool. Sincerely appreciate the efforts.
there are around 10 biggies down cook quay
Not anymore!
7:38 bo bo? Should that not be Iggy no mo or Iggy be gone or de best one:
A HIRED KILLER.
Unna gettin rid o dem n will be able to have a garden now.
are the iguanas being killed humanely?
how are the carcasses being disposed of?
too many questions and not enough answers.
Dont worry about it and if you’re not doing anything to help but running your big fat mouth then please STFU and sit back and enjoy the fruits of our labour, your welcome.
caymankind….
*You’re
still no answers…just caymankind ignorance.
Snowflake
try harder…i’m sure you can do better.
Nah, it’s perfect, no need to try harder.
spoken like a true maga muppet
It’s people like you that won’t cullers onto your property to rid of these pests. So it’s people like you that will make this whole program a failure. I know I will be upset that government would have spent in excess of ci$6m of tax payers money for the iguanas to back in 2 years at same levels. Instead of being part of the problem, why don’t you go out and catch a few and earn some drinking money?
answer the questions first…
Its been answered SO MANY TIMES ALREADY
LOL..
what does killing 1,000’s of iguanas everyday do for your mentality?
seen some scumbags on smb catch them from trees then smash their heads on the sidewalk to kill them…all in front of tourists.
caymankind i suppose.
Just be grateful you POS that its not your head being smashed by some new and improved CAYMANUNKIND.
come and get some….i’ll ready and waiting.
friday 5pm martin drive?
Heroes Square
This is unnecessary, please have some class.
How do you propose they should be dispatched? Have you ever tried to kill one? Guns are out, and knives are messy and do not work. A sharp bang to the back of the head appears instant, and is clean and cost effective. Sidewalk curbs are ideal – but if you do not like it, by all means suggest viable alternatives.
It’s quite a de-stressor from work, I must say.
Actually a quick blow to the head is a humane way to kill an animal.
850,000 dead iguanas must create an awful smell, exactly what was done with them at the dump?.
secret. nobody has ever said. but perhaps its not really 850k…
Well….. they do taste like chicken! Have you ordered wings in your favorite restaurant lately?
Who is counting these Greens and better yet, who is auditing the totals?
Change the record, man. Seriously.
not really….to think someone has head counted 850k dead iguanas is a big bad joke.
however the cull seems to have a real impact on their numbers….just don’t lie about the process.
I guess its impossible to count to 850k…
depends on who and how….
Instead of chatting shit about what you don’t know, why not get off your posterior and go see for yourself? Everything about the receiving process is done in the open (literally) for everyone to observe. If you doubt the numbers, we invite you to hop into the dumpster and count the carcasses yourself … heck stay and play with them a while … it might improve the ‘air’ around you.
you know its nonsense….
Show me the pictures. Better record a video.
Amen
If they are paying $5 for each iguana killed, I would imagine the financial records would leave an audit trail – rather than someone standing there and counting the actual iguanas.
And how would one validate the Audit without first knowing how many have been culled?
Seen two little ones around the holiday in pool the other day
What Holiday?
*Inn