Who Killed the Iguanas?
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Description: An article discussing the reasons for the decrease in iguana population. Includes a picture and bibliography.
Popular wisdom has it that no iguanas remain on Baltra because American troops used them up for target practice during World War II. It's a believable legend: imagine being barely 20 years old, newly drafted and sent to a place that could very well be the next Pearl Harbor. You have nothing to do but stand around and wait for something terrible to happen. But of course, nothing terrible does happen. In fact, nothing happens, period. It will take about 20 more years until the Charles Darwin Research Station is born and the world wakes up to the non-military significance of this God-forsaken place. But in the meantime, your home so far away from home is just “The Rock,” a term of endearment formerly reserved for Alcatraz, another prison watched over by gun-toting guards. But on this rock, the guards are also the prisoners, for there's no ferry service back to more congenial surroundings at the end of each boring day. So you pass the idle moment by taking a few shots at some stupid lizards. So the story goes.
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