Iguana bounty raised for certified specialistsBy Esme Yeh / Staff reporterThe Ministry of Agriculture’s Forestry and Nature Conservation Agency is raising the bounty for adult green iguanas to NT$300 apiece for certified iguana removers, after more than 260,000 iguanas were removed nationwide last year. Iguana removal operations used to be suspended toward the end of a year with the government financial cycle, said the agency, but iguana mating season usually occurs early each year. A green iguana is pictured in Tainan in an undated photograph. The more than 260,000 iguanas removed nationwide last year was triple the figure from the year before, it said. Pingtung County topped the list with 130,288 iguanas removed, followed by Kaohsiung’s 62,608 iguanas, it added.

Source: Taipei Times January 25, 2026 17:35 UTC