We’re seeing more and more high-intensity storms slam the Caribbean ... lesser Virgin Islands skink and Virgin Islands bronze skink as endangered. It also proposed protecting the Culebra skink, found ...
12, 2024.The skinks are found on Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands and face extinction because of introduced predators, habitat destruction and climate change. “Help is on the horizon for the ...
Yes, the Caribbean ... Islands offer unique wildlife encounters both on land and sea. The blue iguana, native to Grand Cayman, is a true success story of conservation. Once critically endangered ...
Endangered seabirds have returned to their small island home in French Polynesia ... thanks to state and federal protections. In the Caribbean, the removal of invasive species such as rats and ...
Austin Neill via Unsplash On a tiny and remote island in the Caribbean, the rocky landscape tests the animals that call ... Instead, the critically endangered species is making a remarkable ...
Recently published in the scholarly journal Zootaxa, "A new forest lizard fauna from Caribbean islands (Squamata, Diploglossidae, Celestinae)" defines 17 new species, elevates 17 subspecies and ...
A tiny lizard found only on one tiny Caribbean ... few years of island restoration efforts. In 2018, researchers estimated there were fewer than 100 individuals of the critically endangered ...