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238 IGUANA  •  VOLUME 13, NUMBER 3  •  SEPTEMBER 2006 IRCF ON THE MOVE

IRCF to Sponsor 
Team Blue 2006 Winter Session

The IRCF has been awarded a $10,000 grant from the
Maine Community Foundation. These funds will be used

to sponsor the Blue Iguana Recovery Program’s Team Blue 2006
winter activities, which represents a critical milestone in the pro-
gram. Specific projects undertaken by this year’s volunteers
include assisting with the health screening of animals that are to
be released, trail development in the Salina Reserve, mapping,
construction and assembly of artificial retreats, placement of
those retreats, and release of the next group of head-started Blue
Iguanas (Cyclura lewisi) in the Salina Reserve. The IRCF
expresses its gratitude and sincere appreciation to the donor and
the Maine Community Foundation for their continued support
of the Blue Iguana Recovery Program.

IRCF Nets $18,000 for 
Guatemalan Beaded Lizard Conservation1

The IRCF and Zoo Atlanta raised $18,000 for Project
Heloderma at this year’s National Reptile Breeders Expo

benefit auction. The money will be used to help preserve the

endangered Guatemalan Beaded Lizard, Heloderma horridum
charlesbogerti, by funding conservation research, environmental
education, and land acquisition to secure critical habitat in the
Motagua Valley, Guatemala.

The IRCF extends its gratitude to all those individuals,
organizations, and companies that donated goods and services
for the auction. Our heartfelt thanks go also to all of the won-
derful people who volunteered in Daytona to help solicit items
from Expo vendors and run the auction itself. A special thank
you to our incomparable auctioneer, Tattoo Pete and to NRBE
promoter Wayne Hill for his continuing support for reptile con-
servation.

I R C F  O N  T H E  M O V E

In addition to the main auction, items on one of the many silent auc-
tion tables elicited the interest of attendees.

“Tattoo” Pete Gardiner, auctioneer (left) and Chuck Schaffer, auction
facilitator, open the auction with a rare illustration of a Beaded Lizard
(Heloderma horridum).

Attendees begin to fill the room to capacity during the opening
moments of the auction.

1 See the complete list of donors and volunteers on p. 191.

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