What is Iguana Park?

Iguana Park is a specially designed park where endangered iguanas are protected and allowed freely. In Costa Rica, Central America and Ecuador in South America, there are two well -known Iguany parks. Although both of them have Iguans as the main attractions, one park brings them up to protect them from extinction, while the other uses them primarily for tourism purposes. The Iguans were hunted on the edge of extinction despite the ban on government. Part of the reason for the lack of recovery is that the iguana is valued as a delicious meat in Costa Rica. This is locally known as "Pollo de Palo" or "Chicken of Trees".

German biologist Dr. Dagmar Werner, founder of the Iguan Verde Foundation, began her work in the hope that local farmers would turn to Iguans rather than raising cattle. Cattle, whose hooves teat what is the left of the forest floor after ranks of slashes and burning cleaned the rainforest for their fields, are more dangerous for the rainforest than the Iguans living in and off the trees. Foundation for Iguan Verde CH FoundationIguans in their park and re -introduce them to the rainforest.

Since the foundation of the Foundation, thousands of Iguans have been released into nature. Some of them are hunted and sold as meat, while others can breed and help restore the local population. The park also brings income as a tourist attraction. There is a restaurant where visitors can taste Iguans. Tourists can also go hikes through the forest or on tours of forest canopy.

in Guayaquil, Ecuador, is the local residents of Parque de Simon Bolivar or Simon Bolivar Park. Iguans wander free of charge on the square with a view of the statue of the former political leader Simon Bolivar and Park Benches. Children are commonly visible as Iguan's tails pull, but animals are used to such a rough handling and rarely bites.

as well as the Iguana Park in Costa Rica, Simon Bolivar Park was conceived as a way to improve the economy fromme and bring money to the formerly harsh city of Guayaquil. Iguan's park maintenance is part of one of the largest reconstructions in the history of the city. In addition to the army of street sweepers, which maintain clean city parks, the worker comes to the park with fruit and feeding iguanas every day.

Iguans Simon Bolivar Park are not hunted or sold as food. Instead, they provide entertainment to tourists and locals who enjoy interaction with animals, usually only see in the wild. Although there are many familiar features of "not to feed Iguan", visitors often ignore them. Animals usually rest on trees.