Flamingos Return to the British Virgin Islands, Stout Anegada Rock Iquana Island Biogeography

Dr. James (Skip) Lazell talks with Rob Moir about exploration, conservation and management with The Conservation Agency. In the British Virgin Islands, flamingos, once common in the BVI, then gone, were returned by jet from Bermuda. The birds traveled wrapped in cheesecloth. On Anegada Island, they were unwrapped and released into a seine net enclosure for release the next day on a salt pond. The Flamingo population is growing. Anegada rock iguana is called the stout iguana because it is the heaviest of all land iguanas. Eight stout iguanas were moved from Anegada to Guana Island.   

Skip describes island biogeography around the world, and tells cases of animals becoming separate species. Skip and his wife Dr.. Wenhua Lu, entomologist, begin research at home in southeastern New England, then extend across North America, the West Indies, East Indies, China, Australia, and sometimes Africa: from Nantucket to New Caledonia, Newfoundland to Tasmania.