The Green Iguana Conservation Project at the San Ignacio Resort Hotel continues to be one activity you do not want to miss when in San Ignacio town. For fifteen years, this Belize Resort has been at the forefront of promoting the conservation of the Green Iguana Specie.  The main objective of this project is to create and promote environmental awareness to the public about the importance of protecting the Green Iguana.  The project has proven to be very successful. Currently the hatchery holds over 50 adult Iguanas and some 70 juvenile.

A highly interpretive and educational exhibit has been designed within the Resort’s property in order to create a closer look at this amazing reptile, and to learn how vital they could be to the ecological balance of our river habitat.  They also offer the Adopt an Iguana Program and the Iguana Kids Club, both of which have received much attention locally and internationally.  The process of egg incubation, hatching, rearing and releasing juvenile iguanas is an ongoing process on site.  Visitors and school children alike are given the opportunity to have contact with one of the many young resident iguanas.

The program aims to create awareness, educate, and to release these reptiles into the wild in an effort to repopulate the riverbanks of Belize with these colorful creatures.  You will find this tour both fascinating and very educational as you get up close with the green iguanas of Cayo.