The National Parks Trust has been working rehabilitating the "critically-endangered" Anegada Rock Iguana (Cyclura pinguis) for over ten years. This iguana is unique to the island of Anegada, but has been under tremendous pressures in recent years. Two of the major threats to the species survival are starvation and the eating of juveniles by wild cats.

In 1998, the NPT received a one-year grant from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office through the local Governor's Office to fund a rehabilitation Programme.

The project includes the construction of a Headstart facility that is housing juvenile iguanas. Currently 15 juveniles are being housed in the facility, which can accommodate 50. The facility gives the young iguanas an opportunity to grow to a size where they can have a better possibility of surviving in the wild.

In May and June of 1998, research Biologist at the University of Tennessee Glen Gerber

conducted a census of the population. He confirmed a trend that the Trust had feared, that is "the absence of juvenile iguanas is a warning sign that the population is in trouble."

The Trust is hoping that with the Headstart facility the population will be rehabilitated.