Iguana 11.4 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 Tennessee, Knoxville, TN AJ Gutman, Executive Secretary and Associate Editor of IGUANA West Hartford, 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. 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Contact Sandy Binns, Advertising Director, at sandy@cyclura.com or 3010 Magnum Drive, San Jose, CA 95135. IGUANA Copyright ©2004 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. Remarks Craig Hassapakis, editor of Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (ARC), originally conceived the idea to devote a special publication entirely to iguana conservation. Allison Alberts organized the topics and authors. The first five articles in this issue were subsequently reviewed and edited by Craig, his associate editor, Jack Sites, and the editorial team at ARC. They thank the following individuals for their service in reviewing and/or editing those articles: Mark Goodwin, Malcolm McCallum, Gad Perry, Michael Dreslik, Csilla Csaplar, John McVay, Stephen Johnson, Deahn Donner Wright, Bethany Meisinger-Reiff, and Craig Snyder. Due to an impacted publication schedule at ARC, IGUANA kindly offered to publish the special issue. This solution exemplifies the cooperation being exhibited in herpetology, and ARC and the authors of the articles are grateful to the editors of IGUANA for their foresight and generosity in accommodating this material. Editorial Note.—In Powell (2004. IGUANA 11(2):108–113), the author commented (figure caption, p. 109) that “Cyclura carinata bartschi is not genetically distinct from the nominate subspecies,” citing Malone and Davis (2004. In: Alberts et al. (eds.), Iguanas: Biology and Conservation). In fact, the genetic compo- sition of the Booby Cay population has yet to be compared to populations in the Turks & Caicos Islands that are assigned to the nominate population. We thank Glenn Gerber for bringing this to our attention.