Inagua, the southernmost and most isolated of the major Bahamian islands, hosts one of the largest breeding colonies of West Indian flamingos in the world — a population that had been hunted nearly to extinction by the early twentieth century before conservation efforts beginning in the 1950s brought numbers back above 50,000. The National Trust designation of Great Inagua as a protected area in 1963 is directly responsible for the species' recovery in the Caribbean.
Inagua, the southernmost and most isolated of the major Bahamian islands, hosts one of the largest breeding colonies of West Indian flamingos in the world — a population that had been hunted nearly to extinction by the early twentieth century before conservation efforts beginning in the 1950s brought numbers back above 50,000. The National Trust designation of Great Inagua as a protected area in 1963 is directly responsible for the species' recovery in the Caribbean.