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<p>In this undated photograph provided by the Cayman Islands Department of Tourism, a free-roaming adult male blue iguana stands in the Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park on Grand Cayman. Roughly 700 blue iguanas breed and roam free in protected woodlands on the eastern side of Grand Cayman in the western Caribbean that is the only place where the critically endangered animals are found in the wild. (AP Photo/Will Burrard-Lucas, Cayman Islands Department of Tourism)</p>

<p>In this undated photograph provided by the Cayman Islands Department of Tourism, a free-roaming adult male blue iguana stands in the Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park on Grand Cayman. Roughly 700 blue iguanas breed and roam free in protected woodlands on the eastern side of Grand Cayman in the western Caribbean that is the only place where the critically endangered animals are found in the wild. (AP Photo/Will Burrard-Lucas, Cayman Islands Department of Tourism)</p…

August 16, 2012

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Cayman's imperiled iguanas on the rebound
August 16, 2012 9:15 p.m.

Cayman's imperiled iguanas on the rebound

Cayman's imperiled iguanas on the rebound

QUEEN ELIZABETH II BOTANIC PARK, Cayman Islands (AP) - The blue iguana has lived on the rocky shores of Grand Cayman for at least a couple of million years, preening like a miniature turquoise dragon as it soaked in the sun or sheltered inside crevices. Yet having survived everything from tropical hurricanes to ice ages, it was driven to near-extinction by dogs, cats and cars.