Rare iguana species discovered through The Blue Lagoon faces a new threat to its survival

It was during a screening of the 1980 film The Blue Lagoon that the Fiji Crested Iguana was first identified. The movie was partially shot at Nanuya Levu, Fiji and, when John Gibbons from the University of the South Pacific watched the sweeping landscape shots of native flora and fauna on the island, a large colourful iguana caught his eye. Dr Gibbons, who was studying Fijian banded iguana at the time, travelled to Nanuya Levu and identified the new species of lizard to science as the Fiji crested iguana.

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