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Issue Date
2013Subject
IGUANASREPTILES
CARIBBEAN ISLANDS
SPECIES SURVIVAL PLANS
ACTION PLANS
ENDANGERED ANIMALS
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION
WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT
Pages
28
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https://portals.iucn.org/library/node/29139Abstract
Thought to be extinct by the mid 1900s, the Jamaican Iguana was rediscovered in 1970, and again in 1990. The 1970 rediscovery generated surprisingly little interest, either within Jamaica or among international conservation organizations. But when pig hunter Edwin Duffus brought a live specimen to the Hope Zoo in 1990, the local Jamaican Iguana Research and Conservation Group (JIRCG) was rapidly formed, and international support quickly materialized. The renamed Jamaican Iguana Recovery Group (JIRG) is a consortium of local Jamaican organizations and international conservation groups that held a workshop in July 2006 to formulate the present Species Recovery Plan (SRP)...Type
Technical ReportRights
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