Green Iguana
Iguana iguana
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Green iguanas can in fact vary substantially in colour from almost blue through to red. They have excellent vision and can detect movement and shapes over a long distance. They are tree living herbivores and are known as the chicken of the trees in some parts of Central and South America. As an extreme suggestion to combat deforestation from cattle ranching, Edward Wilson mentions if cattle ranchers switched to farming iguana, farmers would gain ten times the amount of meat compared to cattle on the same land. Farmers would require the forest for the iguana’s habitat, thus benefiting conservation. One of the problems with this radical solution is that few people would accept iguana meat as a substitute for beef.
