NEW YORK (November 23, 2020) – To commemorate International Jaguar Day on Sunday, November 29th, WCS is announcing a webinar of top jaguar experts to discuss conservation opportunities and threats facing the Americas only big cat species. International Jaguar Day is held every year to raise awareness of the threats to jaguars, its role as a key indicator of ecosystem health, and to inform conservation efforts to guarantee its survival.
The webinar, called “Jaguar Conservation, Opportunities and Challenges” takes place on Wednesday November 25th from 10-11:30 a.m. ET, and features experts from WCS’s Bolivia and Guatemala Programs, CITES, and Red Jaguar/Jaguar Network and EL PAcCTO’s (Europe Latin America Technical Assistance Programme against Transnational Organized Crime) Red Jaguar/Jaguar Network.
Panelists will discuss jaguar conservation, including international agreements regulating international trade, collaboration among authorities vs. international organized crime, and the efforts of organized civil society to conserve the species.
The webinar will be in Spanish only, and is free and open to the public. To participate, register at www.conversatoriojaguar.org until Tuesday, November 24.
Panelists include:
Juan Carlos Vasquez, CITES Chief of Legal and Trade Policy Officer Unit (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora)
Xavier Cousquer, El PAcCTO Co-Director (Europe Latin America Technical Assistance Programme against Transnational Organized Crime)
Rob Wallace, WCS Director of the Madidi-Tambopata Greater Landscape Conservation Program in Bolivia
Ronny Garcia-Anleu, Biological Research Director for WCS Guatemala