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Minister Audley Shaw discusses the importance of preserving the Jamaica Iguana

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February 7, 2020

Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw (centre), discusses the importance of preserving the Jamaica Iguana with Assistant Curator of iguanas at the Audubon Zoo in the United States, Melanie Litton (right), at the health screening of the Jamaican Iguana at the Hope Zoo in Kingston on February 6. At left is Executive Chairman of the Hope Zoo Preservation Foundation, Kenny Benjamin. The Jamaica Iguana Health Screening programme, which is funded by the United Nations Development Programme implemented Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme, is designed to, among other things, increase the population of the reptile in the hills of Hellshire, St. Catherine.

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