The Blue Iguana Recovery Program is making great strides towards saving the Grand Cayman Blue Iguana (Cyclura lewisi). At the heart of this success are the volunteers who contribute their time and effort season after season, working to save the most endangered iguana on Earth.

The Blue Iguana Recovery Program and the IRCF are now expanding volunteer opportunities to include year-round volunteering at the Breeding and Headstart facility, tailored for those interested in caring for the captive Blue Iguanas and their offspring.

The Blue Iguana Captive Breeding and Headstart Facility is located in the Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park (shown above). The facility manages the captive breeding stock and their offspring. Juveniles and hatchlings are raised in cages until they reach the age of two years old before they are released into the wild.

Team Blue Facility Volunteers help provide daily care for the resident Blue Iguanas by collecting their diet of wild plants, flowers, and fruit from around the island, maintaining their cages and pens, and performing other duties around the facility.

For the field-hardy, we are continuing to offer fieldwork opportunities to assist in radio-tracking, surveys, data collection, construction, and release in the wild. We will also be offering field opportunities on Little Cayman.A hands-on experience working with the most endangered Iguana on Earth.

The Blue Iguana Recovery Program is offering field volunteer opportunities to assist with tasks involving physical challenge: radiotelemetery, monitoring, assessment, release in the wild, construction, and other related work.

If you’re interested in volunteering, please complete and submit the secure online volunteer application. To preview the application and registration information download the sample form here.

Upon submission, your application will be processed, (usually within 24-48 hours) and an email acknowledgement will be sent out.

An acceptance email will contain your logon and password information so that your registration can be completed. LODGING is LIMITED. To avoid conflict with other volunteers, your airline travel dates must match your volunteer work period unless you provided for alternate accommodations for any subsequent or prior period on Grand Cayman. Please advise us immediately of any changes in your travel plans.

IMPORTANT: Registration uses a Calendar Reservation System for your volunteer period. The dates you select are reserved but are not confirmed until your travel information has been entered in the registration form. We recommend you make flight reservations as soon as possible to avoid conflicts in travel dates that would affect your volunteer period since the program operates on a first-come-first-served basis.