Sombrero Island is a rocky, uninhabited outpost located ... a channel between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It’s home to the remains of an old lighthouse, as well as a newer ...

Years of phosphate mining, invasive species and roaring hurricanes have left Sombrero Island relatively barren, causing multiple species to fight for their survival. One of these at-risk creatures ...

It is endemic to Sombrero, the northernmost island of the Lesser Antilles and roughly 34 miles off the coast of Anguilla. This tiny Caribbean island ranks in the top three of the world’s 36 ...

A study from 1999 estimated there were only between 396 and 461 individuals left. Sombrero Island was also once on the verge of environmental collapse. Mineral mining, a population of invasive ...

The Sombrero ground lizard, endemic to a tiny Caribbean island near Anguilla, is a critically endangered reptile. In 2018, it was estimated that fewer than 100 individuals of the species were left ...