The Marine Iguana
These iguanas are critically endangered, hunting as well as becoming road kill have become major population disasters. Causing iguanas to go from the most common Land animals in The Lesser Antilles to being critically endangered.
This subspecies of the marine iguana is not the most endangered iguana known in anyway. However, even the fact that they are endemic to a single island in the galapagos makes them at least vulnerable.
These iguanas are critically endangered, although sometimes confused with the Fijian Banded Iguana, this species is far more rare than its relatives.
These iguanas are critically endangered, hunting as well as becoming road kill have become major population disasters. Causing iguanas to go from the most common Land animals in The Lesser Antilles to being critically endangered.
There are many different species of iguanas, and almost all of them are endangered in some way. Whether it be hunting, disease, habitat destruction or being road kill, or many more creative examples. On the IUCN Red List, 23 species of iguana are from near threatened to critically endangered. Including 1 extinct species, the Navassa Rhinoceros Iguana. The marine iguana among them. Some of the most critically endangered are the Fiji Crested Iguana, Galapagos Pink Land Iguana, Utila Spiny-tailed Iguana and most South Indian Rock Iguana species.
Endangered iguanas
The endangerment of iguanas across the world
Iguana Endangerment
As said before, the cause of endangerment varies in each place. In the Lesser Antilles (home of the West Indian Rock \ Lesser Antillean iguana) the destruction of the environment by agriculture, timber industry and growing population have caused the iguanas from being the most populous animals in the region to being critically endangered. In the Blue Iguanas environment of The Grand Cayman Island, global warming has caused large decreases in population. And the list goes on… In some places hunting and being turned in to road kill causes some species to become threatened where as in other there simply weren’t that many in the first place.