MEXICO CITY, MEXICO — Purchasing illegal jaguar parts — from teeth to skins to claws — doesn’t always involve seeking out the dark, nefarious corners of the black market. Often, they can be found with a quick Google search. Or by pursuing social media sites and online marketplaces. A new report from the Wildlife Conservation […]
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Conservationists play matchmaker to boost Argentina’s jaguar gene pool
For about 70 years, jaguars were absent from Iberá Park in northeastern Argentina’s Corrientes province. To rectify this, conservationists reintroduced three jaguars into the park in 2021, followed by seven more. In July 2022, two cubs were born from this reintroduced population. But experts say the key to successfully reinstating the species isn’t just about […]
Mexican sanctuary prepares to re-wild endangered jaguar cubs
OXTOTIPAC, Mexico, Dec 1 (Reuters) – Lying on a shady patch of grass under the hot Mexico sun, Zazil, a female spotted jaguar stretches her limbs. Born in captivity, she is a top candidate to help boost wild populations of this magnificent, endangered species. Reino Animal, a sprawling animal conservation park some 56 kilometres (35 […]
Is the Jaguarundi Extinct in the United States?
A few times a year, wildlife officials in Texas receive excited phone calls. “I just saw something that looks like a really big cat, or maybe a giant weasel,” a caller might say. “Was it a jaguarundi?” No, they’re not reporting a sighting of a mythical beast like the chupacabra. But they might as well […]
A mountain lion attacked a nine-year-old girl who was playing hide-and-seek at a church camp in Washington state
At a church camp in Washington state, a mountain lion attacked a nine-year-old girl who was playing hide-and-seek, gravely injuring her and sending her pals fleeing in terror. On Saturday at the camp in the small town of Fruitland, north-west of Spokane, Lily A Kryzhanivskyy and two other youngsters were playing in the woods. The […]
Could jaguars move farther northward and repopulate the Southwestern U.S.?
The powerful and elegant jaguar is the only big cat in the Americas and the third largest in the world after lions and tigers. It was once found all the way from central Argentina to the Southwestern United States. The biggest difference between jaguars and leopards, which live in Asia and Africa, is their size […]
Wildlife experts fear that a rare Persian leopard temporarily housed in an Iraqi zoo risks an uncertain future
Wildlife experts fear that a rare Persian leopard temporarily housed in an Iraqi zoo risks an uncertain future. The male leopard was caught in a trap set by a peasant who had lately lost dozens of goats in the mountainous Batifa area of northern Duhok province, in the autonomous Kurdistan region, and its right hind […]
New areas of primary forest cleared in Brazil’s ‘lawless’ Lábrea
Satellite imagery reveals several areas of primary rainforest were cleared alongside agricultural fields in the Brazilian Amazon, all in close proximity to Indigenous and protected lands. In March, the Global Land Analysis and Discovery (GLAD) lab at the University of Maryland detected areas of newly cleared forest in Lábrea municipality, in the state of Amazonas. […]