IUCN – SSC -Iguana Specialist Group Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz, Galápagos 2014

Door Evert Henningheim

De Iguana Specialist Group conference werd dit jaar gehouden in het Charles Darwin Research Station.

De nieuwste onderzoeken werden aan elkaar gepresenteerd. Ook werden er Galápagos Land en zee leguanen workshops gehouden. Er was een veldtrip naar Santa Fe eilland, het leefgebied van Conolophus pallidus en Amblyrhynchus cristatus en Seymour Norte en Plaza Sur (Conolophus subcristatus and Amblyrhynchus cristatus). En een veldtrip naar Los Gemelos, El Chato 2 (Reuzenschildpadden), Rancho el Manzanillo, en El Garrapatero beach (Amblyrhynchus cristatus)
Deelnemers:
Allison Alberts – San Diego Zoo, USA
Nicole Atteberry – Zoo Miami, USA
John Bendon – IUCN-UK, United Kingdom
Kelly Bradley – Fort Worth Zoo, USA
Judith Bryja – Houston Zoo, USA
Sandra Buckner – The Bahamas
Joseph Burgess – Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve, USA
Roslyn Cameron – Galápagos Conservancy, Galápagos
Karl Campbell – Island Conservation, Galápagos
Steve Conners – Miami Zoo, USA
Jeffrey Corneil – Truman State University, USA
Elisa Curot-Lodeon – National Hunting and Wildlife Agency, Martinique
Heidi Davis – San Diego Zoo Global, USA
Christina De Jesus Villanueva – University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
Livia Di Giambattista – Tor Vegata University, Italy
Robert Ehrig – Finca Cyclura and Red Creek Biological Reserve, USA & Belize
Miguel Garcia – Department of Natural and Environmental Resources, Puerto Rico
Gabriele Gentile – Tor Vegata University, Italy
Glenn Gerber – San Diego Zoo Global, USA
Amnerys González Rossell – Centro Nacional de Áreas Protegidas, Cuba
Tandora Grant – San Diego Zoo Global, USA
David Heckard – Audubon Nature Institute, USA
Evert Henningheim – Dutch Iguana Foundation, The Netherlands
Rick Hudson – Fort Worth Zoo, USA
Jill Jollay – Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands
Chuck Knapp – John G. Shedd Aquarium, USA
Jeff Lemm – San Diego Zoo Global, USA
Alizon Llerena – Charles Darwin Research Station, Galápagos
Carmina Martínez-González- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México
Chad Montgomery – Truman State University, USA
Michela Onorati – Roma Tre University, Italy
Stesha Pasachnik – San Diego Zoo Global, USA
Cayle Pearson – Busch Gardens Tampa, USA
Bonnie Raphael – Wildlife Conservation Society, USA
Victor Hugo Reynoso – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México
Howard Snell – University of New Mexico, USA
Catherine Stephen – Utah Valley University, USA
Washington Tapia – Galápagos National Park Directorate, Galápagos
Kathryn Tosney – University of Miami, USA
Joe Wasilewski – Natural Selections of South Florida, USA
George Waters – GWANDA, USA
Mark Welch – Mississippi State University, USA
Byron Wilson – University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
Eugenia Zarza – Occidental College, USA

Behandelde onderwerpen:

• Dutch Iguana Foundation Update Iguana delicatissima en European Smuggling Concerns – Evert Henningheim
• 2014 Update for the Anegada Iguana, Cyclura pinguis, Conservation Program – Kelly Bradley, Glenn Gerber
• The 2014 On-going Story of the Smuggled Bahamian Rock Iguanas Cyclura rileyi – Sandra D. Buckner
• Natural History, Demography, Range, and Threats of the Oaxacan Spiny-tailed Iguana (Ctenosaura oacacana) – Jeffrey Corneil, Victor Hugo Reynoso en Chad Montgomery
• Monitoring of Juvenile Lesser Iguana (Iguana delicatissima) – Elisa Curo-Lodéon, Angin Baptiste en Chloé Rodrigues
• Measuring and Maintaining Genetic Diversity in Fijian Iguanas (Brachylophus sp.) and Anegada Iguanas (Cyclura pinguis) – Heidi A. Davis, Leona G. Chemnick, Robert N. Fisher, Peter Harlow, Glenn Gerber en Oliver A. Ryder
• The Conservation and Management of Cyclura Iguanas in Puerto Rico – Miguel A. Garcia en Glenn Gerber
• Principales Resultados de Programma de Monitoeo de Cyclura bila bila. Proecto GEF-PD Archipiélagos del Sur de Cuba / González Rossel Amnerys, Vincente Berovides, Dorka Cobian, Leonardo Espinosa, Julio Milian, Gretel Abad, Manuel Alonso, Manuel López, Yairen Alonso, José M. Corona en Ernesto Palacio
• Effects on Nesting upon Reproductive Success in Rock Iguanas )Cyclura’ with Comments on Husbandry and the Efficacy of the Suspended Incubation Method )SIM – Jeffrey Lemm en Matt Anderson
• Population Genetics in the Nguio Ctenosaura oaxacana – Martínez González Carmina, Nancy Santos Hernández, Gabriela Díaz Juárez en Victor H. Reynoso
• Caribbean Iguana Conservation Group Update – Lee Pagni
• Conservation Hispaniola´s Endangered Rock Iguanas, Cyclura riccordii and C. cornuta, Ecology, Genetics and Outreach – Stesha Pasachnik, Rosanna Carreas De Leon en Glenn Gerber
• A Myth on Hybrids± Chuckwallas on Alcatraz Island – Santos Hernández, Nacy en Víctor H. Reynoso
• The Ninth Genus± Cachryx – Catherine Stephen, Victor Hugo Reynoso, Jeffrey Sabeyen Larry Buckley
• The Status of Booby Cay, Mayaguana, The Bahamas – Joseph A. Wasilewski en Steve Conners
• The Costs of mall Population Size in Caribbean Iguanas, and Anticipating Long-term Threats to Species Persistence – Mark E. Welch, Rosanna Carreras De León, Giuliano Colosimo, Glenn P. Gerber, Tandora Grant, Charles R. Knapp, Jessica L. Martin, Armed Rasberry en Byron Wilson
• Population Assiggnment and Management of Confiscated Individuals of the Mexican Black Iguana -Eugenia Zarza, Victor Hugo Reynoso en Brent C. Emerson
• Iguanas of the Americas – John Bendon
• Genetic Population Structure of the Invasive Green Iguana (Iguana iguana) in Puerto Rico – Chrstina De Jes’s Villanueva, Wilfredo Falcon, Catherine Stephen en Riccardo Papa
• Effect of Captivity and Habitat Modification on Stress Hormones in the Utila Spiny-tailed Iguana, Ctenosaura bakeri – Chad E. Montgomery, Stesha A. Pasachnik, Andrea Martinez en Ignacio MooreCurrent
• Roatán Spiney-tailed Iguana Research and Future Directions – Stesha A. Pasachnik, Ashley B. Campbell en Stephen Hudman
• Assemblages and acquired Antibiotic Resistance Traits in Commensal Gram-negative Aerobic Microbiota from Iguana delicatissima (Squamata Iguanidae) from Saint Barthélemy (Lesser Antilles) – Maria Christina Thaller, Luciana Migliore en Gabriele Gentile