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I.I.S. Board of Directors
Joseph Wasilewski, President
Homestead, FL

Joseph Burgess, Vice-president
Jacksonville, FL

A.C. Echternacht, Ph.D., Treasurer
University of Tennesee, Knoxville, TN

AJ Gutman, Executive Secretary and
Associate Editor of IGUANA
West Harford, CT

John & Sandy Binns, Directors, Associate
Editors of IGUANA and Internet Operations
International Reptile Conservation Foundation,
San Jose, CA

Gunther Köhler, Ph.D. and Elke Köhler,
Directors
Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum
Senckenberg & Herpeton, Frankfurt, Germany

Robert Powell, Ph.D., Director and Editor
of IGUANA
Avila University, Kansas City, MO

I.I.S. Editorial/Advisory
Board
Allison C. Alberts, Ph.D.
IUCN/SSC Iguana Specialist Group and
Zoological Society of San Diego, San Diego, CA

John Bendon, Illustrator for IGUANA
Bath, England

Gordon M. Burghardt, Ph.D.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

Frederic J. Burton
Blue Iguana Recovery Program, Grand Cayman,
Cayman Islands

Jorge Ferrari
Organización de Rescate y Protección de
Reptiles y Anfibios, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

Matthias Goetz, Dipl.-Biol.
Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, Jersey,
British Isles

Alexander Gutsche, Dipl.-Biol.
Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany

Richard Hudson
International Iguana Foundation and 
Fort Worth Zoo, Fort Worth, TX

John B. Iverson, Ph.D.
Earlham College, Richmond, IN

Chuck Knapp
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Michael Ripca, 
Managing Editor of IGUANA
Leaping Lizards Graphic Design, Atco, NJ

Thomas Wiewandt, Ph.D.
Wild Horizons, Tucson, AZ

Founder
Robert W. Ehrig
Big Pine Key, FL

Statement of Purpose
The International Iguana Society, Inc. is a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to preserving the biological diversity of
iguanas. We believe that the best way to protect iguanas and other native plants and animals is to preserve natural
habitats and to encourage development of sustainable economies compatible with the maintenance of biodiversity. To
this end, we will: (1) engage in active conservation, initiating, assisting, and funding conservation efforts in coopera-
tion with U.S. and international governmental and private agencies; (2) promote educational efforts related to the
preservation of biodiversity; (3) build connections between individuals and the academic, zoo, and conservation com-
munities, providing conduits for education and for involving the general public in efforts to preserve endangered species;
and (4) encourage the dissemination and exchange of information on the ecology, population biology, behavior, cap-
tive husbandry, taxonomy, and evolution of iguanas.

Membership Information
Iguana, the Journal of The International Iguana Society, is distributed quarterly to members and member organizations.
Annual dues:
Individual U.S. and Canadian Membership  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $25.00
Individual Foreign Membership  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $35.00
U.S. and Canadian Organizational Membership* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $35.00
Foreign Organizational Membership* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $45.00

(*receives double copies of Iguana) 
Additional copies are available at a cost of $6.00 including postage. 

JOIN ON-LINE AT:  www.IguanaSociety.org

Membership questions? Call AJ at 860-236-8203, or write to: The International Iguana Society, Inc., 133 Steele
Road, West Hartford, CT 06119

Solicitations
Members of the I.I.S. are encouraged to contribute articles, letters to the Editor, news items, and announcements for
publication in IGUANA. General articles can deal with any aspect of iguana biology, including conservation, behavior,
ecology, physiology, systematics, or husbandry. Submission of photographs to accompany articles is encouraged.

Manuscripts may be submitted via e-mail (send to ctenosaura@cyclura.com). For any contribution, please include your name,
address, phone number, and e-mail address. Authors of one page or more of print are entitled to five copies of the issue
in which their article appears.

Advertising Policy of IGUANA
We advertise only non-living products (except feeder insects). All products have been examined and been found to be
high quality and fairly priced. Contact Sandy Binns, Advertising Director, at sandy@cyclura.com or 3010 Magnum Drive,
San Jose, CA 95135.

IGUANA Copyright ©2003 by The International Iguana Society, Inc., 133 Steele Road, West Hartford, CT 06119 USA. ISSN # 1098-6324. The contents of IGUANA, excluding Research Articles, Research Updates, and
reprinted articles, may be reproduced for inclusion in the newsletters of other herpetological societies, provided the material is reproduced without change and with appropriate credits, and a copy of the publication is
sent to The International Iguana Society. Occasional exceptions may be made to this policy.

Editors’ Remarks
Conservation of iguanas and their habitats is the principal component of the IIS Statement of
Purpose (printed in full just below this note). That also has been a recurring theme in every issue
of the Iguana Times and will continue to be the predominant message in IGUANA. However,
conservation is not merely something about which to write and read. Conservation requires
action in the form of education, financial support, and sometimes even getting one’s hands
dirty. The IIS is actively engaged in all of those endeavors. In the past few months, representa-
tives of the Society have carried an educational message from coast to coast: from Jacksonville,
Florida to Seattle, Washington and East Palo Alto, California (see Newsbriefs in this and the pre-
vious issue of IGUANA). The Society has provided financial assistance to aid in developing a cap-
tive breeding program for Jamaican Iguanas at the Hope Zoo in Kingston (see Newsbriefs). We
are monitoring and working closely with conservation agencies and organizations concerned
with iguanas. Most recently, IIS representatives participated in the IUCN/SSC Iguana Specialist
Group (ISG) meeting in the Turks and Caicos Islands, which included a Conservation &
Management workshop for Cyclura carinata (a full report will be featured in the March issue of
IGUANA). And IIS members prove again and again that they’re willing to dirty their hands for
worthy causes; see, for example, the Newsbriefs and the Letter from the President. Although
every individual involved pays his or her own way or is supported by their home institution, the
IIS message they spread is possible only through the support of the Society’s members. Even if
you have never stood in front of an audience and talked about iguanas, written a check to sup-
port an iguana conservation program, or traveled to the tropics to study or monitor a popula-
tion of iguanas, you are a vital link in these efforts.

Bob Powell, AJ Gutman, and John Binns




