Dead or alive: can bounty plan solve Miami Beach’s invasive iguana problem?

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A city commissioner in Miami Beach is proposing a novel solution to tackle an invasion of non-native iguanas overwhelming the popular tourist city: paying a bounty for the head of each reptile brought in dead or alive.
Commissioners have agreed to look into the iguana problem and the suggestion by council member Kristen Rosen Gonzalez to offer payments to hunters, which she says would offer an incentive for locals to take an active role.
At a commission meeting last week, she questioned if a recent quadrupling of the city’s iguana removal budget to $200,000 paid to professional trapping companies offered value to taxpayers.

Though predominantly herbivores, iguanas have also been known to eat snails and small bird eggs.
The city of Miami Beach attempted to get a handle on the problem two years ago by hiring a private removal company to patrol parks and public spaces. More than 200 were removed, but one problem was the trappers were limited to a smaller number of areas, and iguana numbers continued to grow.
In one well-publicized incident, an iguana estimated at 5ft (1.5 metres) long was spotted strolling along Lincoln Road, one of the city’s major thoroughfares, while earlier this year in Hollywood, a city barely 20 miles north, a woman was surprised to enter her bathroom and find a similar-sized reptile sitting in her toilet.