With the support of the Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme, implemented by UNDP, a family in Costa Rica demonstrates how a livestock farm can contribute to healthy soils and environmental sustainability while becoming wildlife corridors supporting both people and wild cats.
Read MoreOn International Jaguars Day on 29th November, we follow how the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is working with Panama to promote jaguar conservation and curb human-jaguar conflict.
Read MoreJaguars are renowned as top predators that roam tropical habitats such as the rainforests of the Amazon and Central America, but jaguars are quite catholic in their habitat requirements. These large cats also live in mountains, flooded grasslands, dry scrub, and pine forests, and deserts. What jaguars need is:
Read More“No es una sorpresa que hay venta de partes de jaguar online, se está convirtiendo en algo importante”
El científico John Polisar lleva dos décadas dedicado a la investigación de esta especie emblemática y ha recorrido prácticamente todo el continente americano. El investigador señala que en los últimos 20 años se ha perdido aproximadamente el 20 % del hábitat del jaguar en Sudamérica.
Read MoreWorking with local communities to ensure that the most powerful feline in the Americas continues to take refuge in Panama.
Read MoreIn 2014 in Bolivia, a group of conservationists with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) was surveying Madidi National Park when they heard an advertisement on their portable radio offering money for jaguar teeth. After informing Bolivian authorities, further investigation led to significant seizures and arrests. The emerging jaguar-poaching crisis recalled a similar period more than four decades earlier…
Read MoreAs we celebrate World Wildlife Day this year, the importance of emphasizing transboundary and collaborative conservation efforts is fresh in our minds.
Just 10 days ago at the 13th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS CoP13) in Gandhinagar, India, the jaguar (Panthera onca) — the wildlife icon of Latin America — was recognized as a migratory species…
Read MoreWe estimate that the habitat of up to 600 jaguars has been burned and otherwise impacted by fires in the greater Brazilian Pantanal this year. This represents habitat devastation never seen before in the region. Despite this, a new jaguar birth sparks hope for the restoration of these big cats and their habitat; introducing Pixana and her new cub Fenix!
Read MoreFor the Mayans, and most of the peoples in pre-Columbian Americas, the jaguar was, and still remains in many cultures, a sacred animal: a symbol of power linked to the Sun God and great warriors. From the ancient cultures in Mexico to Peru and Argentina, for millennia the biggest feline in the Americas…
Read MoreAs a college student, my summer wages were earned clearing trails in the premier wilderness areas of the American Mountain West. From the mountaintops, I could look across 360-degree vistas and not see a hint of a road. The areas with grizzlies felt different than those without…
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