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					<title>In Panama’s Darién, Indigenous communities test a new way to fund conservation</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/in-panamas-darien-indigenous-communities-test-a-new-way-to-fund-conservation/</link>
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					<pubDate>07 Sep 2026 15:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[María Paula Rubiano A.]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Central America, North America, and Panama]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Biodiversity credits, Community Forests, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Conservation Finance, Ecosystems, Finance, In-situ Conservation, Indigenous Peoples, Jaguars, Monitoring, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[When Elsa Quiroz saw the spotted body of a jaguar appear on her son’s computer screen, she couldn’t believe her eyes. “I’d only seen them in books,” she said. In late 2025, a camera captured the animal crossing a semi-abandoned path in Puerto Lara, a an Indigenous Wounaan village north of Panama’s Darien forest, close [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[When Elsa Quiroz saw the spotted body of a jaguar appear on her son’s computer screen, she couldn’t believe her eyes. “I’d only seen them in books,” she said. In late 2025, a camera captured the animal crossing a semi-abandoned path in Puerto Lara, a an Indigenous Wounaan village north of Panama’s Darien forest, close to the Pan-American Highway, an area known for its rich biodiversity. The community was aware of how many birds lived around them, but not of the jaguars. Samuel Cheucarama, Quiroz’s son, reviews each photo taken by the two cameras installed in Puerto Lara every two weeks. He was as astonished as his mom when he first saw the extent of the biodiversity concealed within Puerto Lara’s forest, which covers an area less than twice the size of New York City’s Central Park. He reels off the list: agoutis, spotted rabbits, turkeys, margays, white-headed monkeys, among others, all found within this wilderness of just 600 hectares, or less than 1,500 acres. Cheucarama’s work is a small part of a wider project promoting nature-based economic alternatives in four communities managing a combined 18,000 hectares (about 44,500 acres) of tropical forest in eastern Panama. Although the Panamanian government has made efforts to reduce deforestation in Darién National Park, deforestation from illegal logging and agricultural expansion has increasingly been putting communities under pressure, with little to no support from local and national authorities. As a result, communities have been exploring alternatives to make their conservation efforts economically viable. In&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/in-panamas-darien-indigenous-communities-test-a-new-way-to-fund-conservation/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Honduran authorities seize jaguar kept as pet, put spotlight on local trafficking</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/honduran-authorities-seize-jaguar-kept-as-pet-put-spotlight-on-local-trafficking/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 May 2026 14:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Spoorthy Raman]]>
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						<![CDATA[Sharon Guynup]]>
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							<![CDATA[Central America, Honduras, and North America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Big Cats, Biodiversity, Cats, Conservation, Crime, Environment, Environmental Law, Illegal Trade, Jaguars, Law Enforcement, Mammals, Wildlife, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[Authorities in Honduras have seized a jaguar kept as a pet by a businessman, in a high-profile raid that conservationists say should serve as a deterrent for others engaged in wildlife trafficking. The May 6 raid at a home in Olancho department, in the country’s east, was two weeks in the planning and the first [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Authorities in Honduras have seized a jaguar kept as a pet by a businessman, in a high-profile raid that conservationists say should serve as a deterrent for others engaged in wildlife trafficking. The May 6 raid at a home in Olancho department, in the country’s east, was two weeks in the planning and the first seizure of a live jaguar (Panthera onca) since 2018, said Marcio Martinez, head of the wildlife department at the Forest Conservation Institute (ICF), who was involved in the operation. He added it stemmed from a tip to the Special Environmental Prosecutor&#8217;s Office (FEMA) about a jaguar being kept in the residence of a local businessman in the El Pataste community. The jaguar, a female believed to be about a year old, is thought to have been captured in the Mosquitia forests, a stronghold for the species. The unnamed businessman had no prior criminal record, Martinez said. “He was not listed in our database as a person of interest in the matter of trafficking or illegal possession of wildlife.” Nor has he been arrested. Martinez said FEMA will summon him in the next few days to answer charges of damage to endangered species, illegal capture of wildlife and other possible infractions. He could face fines of around 172,000 lempiras ($6,500) if convicted. Since the seizure, authorities learned that the businessman previously owned wild animals, including big cats. “He will now be a person of interest to environmental government institutions,” Martinez said. The female jaguar being taken&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/honduran-authorities-seize-jaguar-kept-as-pet-put-spotlight-on-local-trafficking/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-319442</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Rare, high-altitude jaguar sighting in Honduras raises hope for conservation</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/rare-high-altitude-jaguar-sighting-in-honduras-raises-hope-for-conservation/</link>
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					<pubDate>27 Apr 2026 18:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Spoorthy Raman]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sharon Guynup]]>
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							<![CDATA[Central America, Honduras, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Big Cats, Biodiversity, Camera Trapping, Cats, Conservation, Environment, Jaguars, Mammals, Predators, Research, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[High in the Sierra del Merendón mountains in Honduras, a jaguar has been photographed at 2,200 meters, or about 7,200 feet — an unusually lofty elevation for a species that usually sticks to lowland forests and wetlands. Jaguars (Panthera onca) are typically found below 1,000 m (3,300 ft), making high-elevation sightings so unusual that scientists [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[High in the Sierra del Merendón mountains in Honduras, a jaguar has been photographed at 2,200 meters, or about 7,200 feet — an unusually lofty elevation for a species that usually sticks to lowland forests and wetlands. Jaguars (Panthera onca) are typically found below 1,000 m (3,300 ft), making high-elevation sightings so unusual that scientists have coined a term for the big cats spotted here: cloud jaguars. Seeing jaguars at this elevation is very rare, said Allison Devlin, who directs the jaguar program for U.S.-based wildcat conservation NGO Panthera. “The fact that they&#8217;re able to travel through these high elevation areas also shows how resilient they are.” The jaguar, a healthy-looking young male, was photographed by camera traps on Feb. 6 this year — almost 10 years to the day, and in the same location, where camera traps captured the first recorded glimpse of an elusive cloud jaguar in the Sierra del Merendón. The mountains form an important corridor between Honduras and Guatemala, linking the jaguar’s historical range, which spans 18 countries across the Americas, running from Mexico to Argentina. As apex predators, jaguars play a key role in the ecosystem by keeping prey populations healthy and balanced, and in helping prevent zoonotic diseases that jump between species and can infect humans. But like all wild cats, they face multiple threats. Once-intact forests are being felled to make way for human settlements, plantations, ranches, mines and other developments. Climate change is also taking a toll: Forest fires are scorching wetlands&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/rare-high-altitude-jaguar-sighting-in-honduras-raises-hope-for-conservation/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-318205</doi>				</item>
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					<title>George Schaller: The field biologist who helped redefine conservation</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/george-schaller-the-field-biologist-who-helped-redefine-conservation/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Apr 2026 12:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Asia, Brazil, China, Global, India, and Tanzania]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Animals, Apes, Bears, Big Cats, Biodiversity, Books, Cats, Conservation, Conservation Philosophy, Endangered Species, Environmental Heroes, Gorillas, Great Apes, Jaguars, Lions, Mammals, Pandas, Primates, Protected Areas, Research, Snow Leopards, Tigers, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Some lives seem to belong less to a nation or a profession than to a disposition. George B. Schaller’s was one of them. He belonged, above all, to animals—gorillas, lions, tigers, snow leopards, pandas—and to the landscapes that still made room for them. In Homesick for a World Unknown: The Life of George B. Schaller, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Some lives seem to belong less to a nation or a profession than to a disposition. George B. Schaller’s was one of them. He belonged, above all, to animals—gorillas, lions, tigers, snow leopards, pandas—and to the landscapes that still made room for them. In Homesick for a World Unknown: The Life of George B. Schaller, Miriam Horn attempts something both straightforward and unusually difficult: to write a full biography of a man who spent most of his life turning his attention away from himself. Schaller is not obscure. He is widely regarded as the most important field biologist of the twentieth century, a figure whose work reshaped zoology, conservation biology, and the way humans think about animal lives. Yet he remains oddly resistant to biography. He disliked introspection, avoided publicity, and wrote sparingly about his own emotions even when describing moments of extreme danger or revelation. Horn’s achievement is to take this reticence seriously rather than try to overcome it. The result is a book that is expansive without being intrusive, admiring without being reverential, and alert to ambiguity even when recounting an extraordinary career. The arc of Schaller’s life has the shape of an adventure story, though Horn is careful not to write one. Born in Berlin in 1933 to an American mother and a German diplomat father, Schaller’s early years were marked by displacement, war, and a persistent sense of not quite belonging. His childhood moved across Nazi Germany, occupied Europe, and eventually the United States. These experiences&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/george-schaller-the-field-biologist-who-helped-redefine-conservation/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-317452</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Loss of prey could drive Atlantic Forest jaguars to extinction</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/loss-of-prey-could-drive-atlantic-forest-jaguars-to-extinction/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 Apr 2026 18:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sean Mowbray]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sharon Guynup]]>
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							<![CDATA[Atlantic Forest, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Big Cats, Cats, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, Forests, Fragmentation, Habitat, Habitat Loss, Hunting, Jaguars, Mammals, Predators, Rewilding, Wildlife, and Wildlife Corridors]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conserving the dwindling jaguar population in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest won’t be possible without protecting its prey. That’s the conclusion of a new study, which found that the absence of deer, peccaries and other animals that sustain these big cats is driving it toward local extinction. Jaguars (Panthera onca) once ranged from the southwestern U.S. to [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conserving the dwindling jaguar population in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest won’t be possible without protecting its prey. That’s the conclusion of a new study, which found that the absence of deer, peccaries and other animals that sustain these big cats is driving it toward local extinction. Jaguars (Panthera onca) once ranged from the southwestern U.S. to Argentina and is the Western Hemisphere&#8217;s largest cat. Today it&#8217;s locally extinct or imperiled across much of its former territory, including the Atlantic Forest biome where it’s critically endangered. In this region, the study notes, some 85 % of jaguar habitat is gone and only small fragments remain within what’s considered one of the world’s most degraded tropical forests. As a result, jaguars have declined dramatically here, especially over the past two decades. The new study highlights one reason why: There’s not much for them to eat. Medium and large prey have diminished greatly, including white-lipped peccaries (Tayassu pecari), collared peccaries (Dicotyles tajacu), brocket deer (Mazama spp.) and tapirs (Tapirus terrestris). “We are facing a silent extinction of prey species in the Atlantic Forest,” says study lead author Katia Ferraz, a wildlife biologist at the University of São Paulo. “We talk a lot about jaguar extinction, but we talk little about the extinction of peccaries and deer, for example, that are important prey.” Ferraz and her colleagues assessed jaguar prey species in nine protected areas in the Atlantic Forest. To do so, they carried out the most extensive camera-trap survey ever conducted in this biome. They&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/loss-of-prey-could-drive-atlantic-forest-jaguars-to-extinction/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-316990</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Outlook for migratory species worsens amid habitat loss &#038; avian flu, report finds</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/outlook-for-migratory-species-worsens-amid-habitat-loss-avian-flu-report-finds/</link>
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					<pubDate>12 Mar 2026 16:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Gloria Dickie]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sharon Guynup]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Arctic, Asia, Central Asia, Chad, East Africa, Europe, Global, Kenya, Serengeti, and Tanzania]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Birds, Climate, Climate Change, Conservation, Diseases, Elasmobranchs, Environment, Fish, Fishing, Freshwater Fish, Habitat Loss, Hunting, Jaguars, Mammals, Mapping, Migration, Mining, Poaching, Sea Turtles, Sharks, Species, Turtles, Wildlife, and Wildlife Corridors]]>
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							<![CDATA[From shorebirds flying between their Arctic breeding grounds and southerly foraging ranges to freshwater fish returning to native spawning streams, migratory animals are struggling. About half of all migratory species populations protected under a global treaty are now in decline, with the situation worsening in just the last two years, according to a new United [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[From shorebirds flying between their Arctic breeding grounds and southerly foraging ranges to freshwater fish returning to native spawning streams, migratory animals are struggling. About half of all migratory species populations protected under a global treaty are now in decline, with the situation worsening in just the last two years, according to a new United Nations-backed report. When the first State of the World’s Migratory Species report was published in 2024, 44% of migratory species populations listed under the U.N. Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) were declining, according to data from the IUCN Red List, the world’s most comprehensive guide to global extinction risk. Since then, the proportion of imperiled CMS-listed species rose to 49%, according to updated Red List data and new research. Though the next status report isn’t due until around 2030, conservation advocates said the deteriorating situation required an interim report, as many countries are moving in the wrong direction when it comes to conserving wildlife that depend on various habitats to complete their life cycles. “This [interim report] is saying there are some alarming trends in the meantime; that we don’t want to wait six years to talk about this,” said CMS executive secretary Amy Fraenkel. Jaguars have no subspecies. Their range extends from Mexico to Argentina, but some populations are cut off, at risk of inbreeding and the demise that comes with it. Image by Gregoire Dubois. The convention, established in 1979, aims to conserve migratory species by protecting&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/outlook-for-migratory-species-worsens-amid-habitat-loss-avian-flu-report-finds/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Big cats get the press, but small wildcats are being poached and trafficked in silence</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/big-cats-get-the-press-but-small-wildcats-are-being-poached-and-trafficked-in-silence/</link>
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					<pubDate>25 Feb 2026 15:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sean Mowbray]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sharon Guynup]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Asia, Bangladesh, Benin, Colombia, Latin America, Myanmar, Niger, Pakistan, Peru, South America, South Asia, and West Africa]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Cats, Conservation, Environment, Illegal Trade, Jaguars, Pet Trade, Poaching, Small Cats, Wildlife, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[Jaguars are increasingly targeted across Latin America for their roseate-patterned pelts and canine teeth, following decades of relatively little poaching. When researchers in Colombia investigated the jaguar trade within the country, they made a troubling discovery: Colombia&#8217;s small wildcats are also in the crosshairs. Official records revealed that between 2015 and 2021, more than 700 [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Jaguars are increasingly targeted across Latin America for their roseate-patterned pelts and canine teeth, following decades of relatively little poaching. When researchers in Colombia investigated the jaguar trade within the country, they made a troubling discovery: Colombia&#8217;s small wildcats are also in the crosshairs. Official records revealed that between 2015 and 2021, more than 700 small wildcats were seized or surrendered to authorities. The vast majority of these cats were found alive, including more than 400 ocelots (Leopardus pardalis) as well as oncillas (Leopardus pardinoides), also known as the clouded tiger cat, jaguarundis (Herpailurus yagouaroundi) and margays (Leopardus wiedii). Between 2015 and 2021, more than 400 ocelots were seized by or surrendered to Colombian authorities. Image by Robin Gwen Agarwal via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0). Skins, teeth and other parts were also confiscated. The research, which was published in the journal Biological Conservation, suggests an established demand for small wildcats as exotic pets in Colombia. “Until now, the trade in small cats in Latin America had always seemed [to be at] a very low scale — opportunistic activity,” says Melissa Arias, a wildlife trade specialist at the Zoological Society of London and a co-author of the study. “But what we saw with the numbers is that it is actually quite significant.” Their findings are both unsurprising and worrisome, as the true scale of trade is likely to be higher, says Pauline Verheij, a wildlife crime specialist with the NGO EcoJust, who wasn’t involved in the research. “It&#8217;s a given that&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/big-cats-get-the-press-but-small-wildcats-are-being-poached-and-trafficked-in-silence/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Researchers eye jaguar conservation wins under Brazil Indigenous stewardship project</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/researchers-eye-jaguar-conservation-wins-under-brazil-indigenous-stewardship-project/</link>
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					<pubDate>18 Feb 2026 16:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[James HallKarla Mendes]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indigenous-led conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Atlantic Forest, Brazil, Caatinga, Cerrado, Latin America, Pantanal, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Big Cats, Biodiversity, Cats, Conservation, Environment, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Jaguars, Mammals, Predators, Rainforests, Top Predators, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[PAU BRASIL, Brazil — Indigenous leader Fábio Titiah recalls the night he walked the trail to the village of Água Vermelha, in the Caramuru-Paraguassu Indigenous Territory. At around 10 p.m., a shadow burst from the undergrowth and sprang across the road. He says he saw, startled, its glistening, pitch-black pelt and recognized it as one [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[PAU BRASIL, Brazil — Indigenous leader Fábio Titiah recalls the night he walked the trail to the village of Água Vermelha, in the Caramuru-Paraguassu Indigenous Territory. At around 10 p.m., a shadow burst from the undergrowth and sprang across the road. He says he saw, startled, its glistening, pitch-black pelt and recognized it as one of the rarest animals of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest: a black jaguar (Panthera onca). For Titiah, one of the 21 caciques (chiefs) of the Caramuru-Paraguassu territory in Brazil’s northeastern state of Bahia, the fleeting sighting of the big cat was a spiritual encounter and a sign of changes afoot in Indigenous lands. “There was a time when we started the reclamation process, when we [re]occupied our territories, and found a large part of our land transformed into cattle pasture,” Titiah tells Mongabay at his house in the municipality of Pau Brasil, adjacent to the Caramuru-Paraguassu territory, where he’s a city councilor. “Then our people left a good part of these areas to regenerate. Some animals that hadn’t been seen here before started appearing. The jaguar started to return.” The transformation of the Caramuru-Paraguassu territory has been enabled in part by Ywy Ipuranguete (“beautiful lands” in the Tupi-Guarani language), a nationwide project to strengthen and support Indigenous stewardship across 15 Indigenous territories. Building on the recognition of Indigenous lands as vital for wildlife and ecosystems, Brazil’s Ministry of Indigenous Peoples launched the initiative to safeguard about 6 million hectares (15 million acres) of some of Brazil’s most&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/researchers-eye-jaguar-conservation-wins-under-brazil-indigenous-stewardship-project/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>To save jaguars from extinction, scientists in Brazil are trying IVF and cloning</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/to-save-jaguars-from-extinction-scientists-in-brazil-are-trying-ivf-and-cloning/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Dec 2025 10:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Letícia Klein]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Xavier Bartaburu]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Big Cats, Conservation, Endangered Species, Extinction, Jaguars, Science, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[MIRANDA, Brazil — We made three attempts to capture a jaguar after arriving at Fazenda Bodoquena in Miranda, Mato Grosso do Sul state, on a Thursday afternoon in early September. Part of the team went to set up a snare trap near a cow carcass that had been found earlier that day. We were sure [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[MIRANDA, Brazil — We made three attempts to capture a jaguar after arriving at Fazenda Bodoquena in Miranda, Mato Grosso do Sul state, on a Thursday afternoon in early September. Part of the team went to set up a snare trap near a cow carcass that had been found earlier that day. We were sure we would catch one because jaguars usually come back to eat off their prey for a few days after a kill. With more than 70,000 hectares (173,000 acres) spread between the Pantanal wetland area and the Cerrado savanna, Fazenda Bodoquena conciliates cattle raising and biodiversity conservation. Once a month, it receives researchers from Reprocon, a group specialized in assisted wildlife reproduction. That night, we returned to our lodgings to eat dinner and monitor the movement from afar: We watched satellite images from a camera installed at the site on our cell phones. As we watched, the camera showed images of a female jaguar, but not the male we believed to have killed the animal. She seemed wary, nearing the carcass and backing off again a few times. When she finally got close enough to our trap, she set it off and managed to dash away. The researchers went to set the trap again, but no more wildcats appeared that night. A new carcass was found on Friday, and the team set the trap (which is only set at the end of the day so that no cats can be trapped during the hot daylight hours).&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/to-save-jaguars-from-extinction-scientists-in-brazil-are-trying-ivf-and-cloning/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>In Brazil’s Pantanal, too many tourists may be the jaguar’s new predator</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/in-brazils-pantanal-too-many-tourists-may-be-the-jaguars-new-predator/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 Sep 2025 18:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Francesco Schneider-Eicke]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Xavier Bartaburu]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil]]>
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							<![CDATA[Big Cats, Conservation, Ecotourism, Human-wildlife Conflict, Jaguars, Rivers, Tourism, Wetlands, Wildlife, and Wildlife Rangers]]>
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							<![CDATA[PORTO JOFRE, Brazil — When Oscar de Morais isn’t out tracking jaguars, you’ll find him aboard his houseboat moored along the banks of the São Lourenço River. He sits beneath a mosquito net on two stacked blue plastic chairs, watching Brazilian soap operas while a fan blows warm air his way. That is, until someone [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[PORTO JOFRE, Brazil — When Oscar de Morais isn’t out tracking jaguars, you’ll find him aboard his houseboat moored along the banks of the São Lourenço River. He sits beneath a mosquito net on two stacked blue plastic chairs, watching Brazilian soap operas while a fan blows warm air his way. That is, until someone asks if he can show them a jaguar. Then his eyes widen, and he breaks into a grin. Oscar is a guide for jaguar tours in the Pantanal. The Pantanal is the world’s largest inland wetland, spanning nearly 200,000 square kilometers (77,000 square miles) across Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia. Twenty-two years ago, when Oscar began ferrying tourists by boat to spot jaguars (Panthera onca), it was still considered an inhospitable no-man’s land — teeming with caimans, mosquitoes, snakes and piranhas. Back then, a bloody feud raged between jaguars and pantaneiros, the people who live in the region. Cattle ranchers were encroaching on jaguar hunting grounds, and when the cats killed cows, the ranchers retaliated. Soon, jaguar sightings had become rare. Today, the Pantanal is hailed as a model for wildlife conservation through ecotourism. Oscar and a handful of others were among the first to recognize that jaguar safaris could be lucrative. Ranchers, too, began to see that the jaguars were worth more alive than dead, drawing in visitors from around the world. Ecotourism has since exploded. Lodges are booked years in advance. Nowhere else do jaguars live in such high densities. “Back in 2009, tour&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/in-brazils-pantanal-too-many-tourists-may-be-the-jaguars-new-predator/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Local forest governance helps jaguars and forests flourish in Guatemala</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/local-forest-governance-helps-jaguars-and-forests-flourish-in-guatemala/</link>
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					<pubDate>25 Aug 2025 16:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Monica Pelliccia]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[global forests]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Central America, Guatemala, and Latin America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Community Development, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Deforestation, Endangered Species, Fires, Forest Destruction, Forest Loss, Forests, Governance, Indigenous Peoples, Jaguars, Protected Areas, Research, Solutions, Sustainable Forest Management, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[CRUCE A LA COLORADA, Guatemala — It’s mid-May and Luis Antonio Juarez, also known as Tonito, has just received a phone alert about a wildfire in the Maya Biosphere Reserve. In his community, Tonito is the resident in charge of monitoring wildlife activities. The area affected by the fire is also home to jaguars in [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[CRUCE A LA COLORADA, Guatemala — It’s mid-May and Luis Antonio Juarez, also known as Tonito, has just received a phone alert about a wildfire in the Maya Biosphere Reserve. In his community, Tonito is the resident in charge of monitoring wildlife activities. The area affected by the fire is also home to jaguars in the reserve, so he quickly launches a drone to check the situation from above. As the drone takes flight from the entrance of the community, turkeys gobble loudly and a little boy fires a plastic gun into the air. Tonito lives in Cruce a la Colorada, a community of 115 families located in the central part of the Maya Biosphere Reserve, in northern Guatemala, on the border with Mexico and Belize. Here, the jaguar (Panthera onca) is an icon and an umbrella species: protecting it safeguards many others within the same habitat. But jaguars face numerous threats, including extensive illegal ranching that clears forests and leads to wildfires. To protect the feline’s habitat, the local community works tirelessly, patrolling the forests every day, monitoring the flora and fauna, and tracking wildfires. The Cruce a la Colorada Integral Forestry Association (AFICC), along with the 12 other forest community concessions in the reserve, have long-term contracts with Guatemala&#8217;s National Council of Protected Areas (CONAP) to protect the Maya Biosphere Reserve and its fauna. “The forest management carried out by community members who live and depend on the forest has been fundamental to maintaining the integrity of the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/local-forest-governance-helps-jaguars-and-forests-flourish-in-guatemala/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Fences, tech and trust help save jaguars in Panama’s Darién</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/fences-tech-and-trust-help-save-jaguars-in-panamas-darien/</link>
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					<pubDate>12 Aug 2025 17:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Marlowe Starling]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Central America, Latin America, and Panama]]>
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							<![CDATA[Big Cats, Biodiversity, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Conservation Technology, Deforestation, Drones, Fires, Jaguars, Solutions, trafficking, Wildlife, Wildlife Corridors, Wildlife Rangers, Wildlife Trafficking, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[DARIÉN, Panama — In a small town called Metetí, deep in Panama’s Darién province, Luis Gutiérrez manages La Reina, or “The Queen,” a cattle ranch named for his wife. His farm features a solar-powered electric fence that encloses the paddocks on his ranch, keeping the cattle contained and protected from jaguars (Panthera onca). On the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[DARIÉN, Panama — In a small town called Metetí, deep in Panama’s Darién province, Luis Gutiérrez manages La Reina, or “The Queen,” a cattle ranch named for his wife. His farm features a solar-powered electric fence that encloses the paddocks on his ranch, keeping the cattle contained and protected from jaguars (Panthera onca). On the other side of the fence, about 50 yards into the forest, camera traps have been capturing footage of the elusive felines crossing the small stream on Gutiérrez’s land since 2022. It’s common for jaguars to kill cattle in the Darién, and for cattle owners to retaliate by killing the felines. That’s why, for the past three decades, Darién has been the country’s top province for jaguar killings. But near La Reina, the jaguars are safe — and so are the cattle. Gutiérrez is one of a small handful of farmers working with jaguar ecologist Ricardo Moreno and his nonprofit, Yaguará Panamá Foundation, to mitigate conflicts between humans and the big cats. “We need to first help people,” Moreno says. It’s the cornerstone of his nonprofit’s approach to jaguar conservation. Darién National Park extends over 579,000 hectares. Photo courtesy of the Panama’s Ministry of the Environment. Across Panama and Latin America, jaguars face a wide range of challenges, from retaliation to trafficking. But in Darién, which bridges jaguar habitats in South and Central America, conserving these animals through local communities is critical, experts say. A key piece of a long corridor Jaguar habitat extends from Mexico&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/fences-tech-and-trust-help-save-jaguars-in-panamas-darien/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Jaguar recovery unites Brazil and Argentina in conservation effort</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/jaguar-recovery-unites-brazil-and-argentina-in-conservation-effort/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Jun 2025 12:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sarah Brown]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Argentina, Atlantic Forest, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Big Cats, Biodiversity, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Governance, Habitat Loss, Human-wildlife Conflict, Jaguars, Protected Areas, Research, Species recovery, Wildlife, Wildlife Corridors, and Wildlife Rehabilitation]]>
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							<![CDATA[The dark rosettes dotting the golden-brown fur of the jaguar are no longer a rare sight in Brazil’s Iguaçu National Park. In 2010, the protected area’s population of jaguars (Panthera onca) was on the brink of local extinction. Now, thanks to persistent conservation efforts led by Yara Barros, a biologist and executive coordinator of the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The dark rosettes dotting the golden-brown fur of the jaguar are no longer a rare sight in Brazil’s Iguaçu National Park. In 2010, the protected area’s population of jaguars (Panthera onca) was on the brink of local extinction. Now, thanks to persistent conservation efforts led by Yara Barros, a biologist and executive coordinator of the Jaguars of Iguaçu Project, the big cats’ numbers have more than doubled. The recovery is a triumph, but it represents more than just a win for the species. Part of the Atlantic Forest biome, straddling the Brazil-Argentina border, Iguaçu has become a prime example of how large carnivore conservation can help strengthen and rebuild a fragmented ecosystem, benefiting predators, prey and people across borders. “To maintain a jaguar population in the long term means [the ecosystem] is healthy and balanced,” Barros told Mongabay. “The jaguar is an indicator of environmental quality. We usually say: ‘Where there are jaguars, there’s life.’” Building human-wildlife coexistence Paraná state in the south of Brazil, where Iguaçu is located, lost about 13% of its forest cover between 2000 and 2020, largely a consequence of economic development. This loss disrupted the natural balance of the ecosystem, often forcing jaguars to adapt their hunting behavior and increasing their interactions with humans and their livestock. Retaliatory killings due to cattle predation have become a major threat to jaguars in the region. Between 1990 and 1995, the Green Corridor, a 185,000-hectare (457,000-acre) stretch of protected land that links Argentina’s Iguazú National Park and Brazil’s&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/jaguar-recovery-unites-brazil-and-argentina-in-conservation-effort/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Ecological crisis in Brazil’s Pantanal fuels human-jaguar conflict</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/ecological-crisis-in-brazils-pantanal-fuels-human-jaguar-conflict/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 Jun 2025 09:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Júlia Moa]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Xavier Bartaburu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil, Latin America, Pantanal, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Big Cats, Conservation, Human-wildlife Conflict, Jaguars, Traditional Knowledge, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Roberto Carlos Conceição Arruda recalls the moment in 2002 when an ordinary morning routine took a harrowing turn. It was around 8 a.m., in the remote mountainous region of Serra do Amolar in Brazil’s Mato Grosso do Sul state, and Arruda, better known as Beto, then 29 years old, had left his house to fetch [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Roberto Carlos Conceição Arruda recalls the moment in 2002 when an ordinary morning routine took a harrowing turn. It was around 8 a.m., in the remote mountainous region of Serra do Amolar in Brazil’s Mato Grosso do Sul state, and Arruda, better known as Beto, then 29 years old, had left his house to fetch water from a spring. Upon returning, he came across a jaguar, which he describes as ready to attack. So he fled for cover, dashing behind a tree. But the jaguar didn’t relent, and although the tree blocked the brunt of its attack, Beto suffered several scratches. He only escaped thanks to the courage and sacrifice of his dog, Elói, a mongrel who charged at the jaguar. The big cat captured the dog and dragged it down to the riverbank, leaving Beto behind. Coexistence between humans and jaguars in the Pantanal wetland, where Serra do Alomar is located, dates back at least 3,000 years, when Indigenous populations began to occupy the territory. The area where Beto lives and works today as a boat pilot and tour guide is home to a majestic rock formation on Brazil’s border with Bolivia, between the municipalities of Corumbá in Mato Grosso do Sul and Cáceres in neighboring Mato Grosso state. The area is part of the Serra do Amolar Protection and Conservation Network, an ecologically important site and sanctuary for large vertebrates such as jaguars (Panthera onca). The big cat has maintained a persistent presence here, making the area a&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/ecological-crisis-in-brazils-pantanal-fuels-human-jaguar-conflict/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Report links meat giant JBS to massive destruction of jaguar habitat</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/05/report-links-meat-giant-jbs-to-massive-destruction-of-jaguar-habitat/</link>
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					<pubDate>22 May 2025 12:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Constance Malleret]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Beef, Big Cats, Biodiversity, Cattle, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Corporate Social Responsibility, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Endangered Species, Forest Destruction, Forest Loss, Illegal Logging, Jaguars, Pasture, Rainforests, Ranching, Supply Chain, Threats To Rainforests, and Tropical Deforestation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agricultural expansion in two Brazilian states has cleared a U.K -sized area of jaguar habitat, nearly a fifth of which occurred in the last decade alone, a new report shows. About 27 million hectares (67 million acres) of wild jaguar habitat have been lost as of 2023 in the Amazonian states of Pará and Mato [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agricultural expansion in two Brazilian states has cleared a U.K -sized area of jaguar habitat, nearly a fifth of which occurred in the last decade alone, a new report shows. About 27 million hectares (67 million acres) of wild jaguar habitat have been lost as of 2023 in the Amazonian states of Pará and Mato Grosso, with 5 million hectares (12 million acres) deforested just in the period from 2014-2023, according to the report by environmental and human rights advocacy group Global Witness. It attributes part of this loss to ranches indirectly supplying cattle to meatpacking giant JBS, with nearly all of the deforestation since 2013 being illegal.  The report comes amid pushback against environmental enforcement efforts at the state level in Brazil, and as the country prepares to host the U.N.’s annual climate summit, COP30, in November. Jaguars (Panthera onca) need intact forests to live and hunt in, and are a keystone species, which means that any change to their territories affects the entire ecosystem they inhabit. The Amazon Rainforest remains the last major stronghold for the species listed as near-threatened on the IUCN Red List. Cattle grazing in deforested land in Pará, one of the states with jaguar territory analyzed by Global Witness. Image courtesy of Global Witness. “We wanted to show not just that deforestation is a huge climate threat, because it destroys forests on which we rely for all the ecosystem services, but also the impact it has on iconic species and all types of biodiversity,”&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/05/report-links-meat-giant-jbs-to-massive-destruction-of-jaguar-habitat/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>A rare jaguar rewilding story highlights obstacles to the big cat’s conservation in Brazil</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/05/a-rare-jaguar-rewilding-story-highlights-obstacles-to-the-big-cats-conservation-in-brazil/</link>
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					<pubDate>12 May 2025 14:36:07 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Suzana Camargo]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Xavier Bartaburu]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, Pantanal, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Big Cats, Conservation, Jaguars, Mammals, Reintroductions, Rewilding, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[In the space of six months, Xamã the jaguar had crisscrossed more than 14,000 hectares of the Amazon Rainforest, or about 35,000 acres — an area a tenth the size of Rio de Janeiro. During that time, he avoided open areas and farms. Xamã may look like any of the thousands of other jaguars (Panthera [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In the space of six months, Xamã the jaguar had crisscrossed more than 14,000 hectares of the Amazon Rainforest, or about 35,000 acres — an area a tenth the size of Rio de Janeiro. During that time, he avoided open areas and farms. Xamã may look like any of the thousands of other jaguars (Panthera onca) found in the Amazon, but there’s something special about him. Aside from the GPS tracking collar around his neck, Xamã is a survivor, with a back story that reveals much about the threats that the largest cat in the Americas faces today. Xamã was about 2 months old when he was found in a rural part of Sinop municipality in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. This region is part of the “arc of deforestation” carving through the Amazon, and is frequently hit with wildfires. It’s thought his mother may have been lost in the wildfire, or else separated from her cub while fleeing the flames. When he was found, Xamã weighed just over 10 kilograms (22 pounds). He was malnourished and dehydrated, and taken to the veterinary hospital at the Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT). The primary care workers there realized that, although he was debilitated, he was in good health. And despite all that he had gone through, he maintained his natural instincts as a wild animal — meaning it might be possible to return him to his natural habitat. Xamã after his rescue in Mato Grosso in 2022. Image courtesy&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/05/a-rare-jaguar-rewilding-story-highlights-obstacles-to-the-big-cats-conservation-in-brazil/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-298946</doi>				</item>
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					<title>In a seasonally flooded Amazon forest, jaguars take to the trees</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/03/in-a-seasonally-flooded-amazon-forest-jaguars-take-to-the-trees/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Mar 2025 15:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Tiago da Mota e Silva]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Xavier Bartaburu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon and Brazil]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Animals, Endangered Species, Flooding, Forests, GPS, Jaguars, Mammals, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[“It’s amazing, it’s amazing! I have no other word to describe it.” That’s how biologist Marcos Roberto de Brito defines the thrill of seeing a jaguar up close for the first time. Brito is the lead author of a recently published study that discovered a unique trait in the jaguars of the Mamirauá Sustainable Development [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[“It’s amazing, it’s amazing! I have no other word to describe it.” That’s how biologist Marcos Roberto de Brito defines the thrill of seeing a jaguar up close for the first time. Brito is the lead author of a recently published study that discovered a unique trait in the jaguars of the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve, in Brazil’s western Amazon: during floods, the big cats spend up to four months living up in the trees, where they hunt, mate and care for their young. Between 2011 and 2020, researchers from the Mamirauá Institute, including Brito, used GPS collars to track 14 jaguars (Panthera onca) in the reserve. Located between the Solimões and Japurá rivers, before they join to form the Amazon, the reserve experiences annual floods that, depending on weather conditions, can raise the water level in the rivers by an average of 10 meters (33 feet). The water inundates the floodplain forests for approximately four months. But the local jaguars have found a surprising way to adapt, says study co-author Guilherme Alvarenga, a biologist at the Mamirauá Institute. “When the river starts to flood, their prey, such as tapirs and wild pigs, simply leave the floodplain and go to dry land. One would assume that the jaguars would go after them, right?” he says. “But that’s not an option in the Mamirauá reserve, because the entire area is surrounded by two large rivers. The floodwaters are unbelievable. They reach 16 meters [52 ft] in some places.” Aerial view of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/03/in-a-seasonally-flooded-amazon-forest-jaguars-take-to-the-trees/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Agriculture, illegal ranching and roads threaten the jaguar in Mesoamerica</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/02/agriculture-illegal-ranching-and-roads-threaten-the-jaguar-in-mesoamerica/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Feb 2025 09:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Astrid Arellano]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Animals, Big Cats, Biodiversity, Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Forests, Jaguars, Protected Areas, Ranching, Roads, Wildlife, and Wildlife Corridors]]>
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							<![CDATA[Jaguar have always disregarded national borders, but some threats are keeping the big cats contained within the territories that they inhabits. The spread of extensive monoculture plantations, illegal ranches, forest fires, roads and hunters are putting severe pressure on this apex predator’s habitats in Mesoamerica, the region that includes Mexico and the countries of Central [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Jaguar have always disregarded national borders, but some threats are keeping the big cats contained within the territories that they inhabits. The spread of extensive monoculture plantations, illegal ranches, forest fires, roads and hunters are putting severe pressure on this apex predator’s habitats in Mesoamerica, the region that includes Mexico and the countries of Central America. To ensure that the emblematic feline survives in this area, conservationists say it’s crucial to protect a stretch of wildlife corridor that passes through northern Guatemala, crosses into Belize, and reaches up to northern Honduras. Throughout this entire region, there are key sites for safeguarding jaguars (Panthera onca). Known as Jaguar Conservation Units (JCUs), they host stable jaguar populations — or could, if some prevailing pressures were eliminated — and are united by connecting corridors. “The loss of any of these areas would cut off the jaguar populations’ connectivity at a regional level,” says Roberto Salom-Pérez, Latin America director for the big cat conservation NGO Panthera. A jaguar in the Maya Biosphere Reserve in Guatemala. Image courtesy of WCS Guatemala. For many scientists, organizations and governments, the challenge is implementing the Jaguar Corridor Initiative. The initiative aims to improve the connectivity between populations of the Americas’ largest feline throughout its entire range, which stretches from Mexico in the north to Argentina in the south. Similarly, an unprecedented global agreement to save the jaguar, which began in late 2018, continues to work toward the conservation of the species before 2030, ensuring that there are 30&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/02/agriculture-illegal-ranching-and-roads-threaten-the-jaguar-in-mesoamerica/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-293586</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Conservation corridors provide hope for Latin America’s felines</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/01/conservation-corridors-provide-hope-for-latin-americas-felines/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 Jan 2025 12:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Antonio José Paz Cardona]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Central America, Latin America, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Big Cats, Biodiversity, Cats, Conservation, Endangered Species, Environment, Habitat, Habitat Loss, Human-wildlife Conflict, Hunting, Jaguars, Mammals, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[The jaguar moves between patches of forest in the Mesoamerican Corridor across Central America. Meanwhile, the majestic Colombian Massif still serves as a refuge for the oncilla, while the puma silently roams the vast expanses of the Paraguayan Chaco fleeing the reprisals of ranchers. The pampas cat pads stealthily among the remaining dry forests of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The jaguar moves between patches of forest in the Mesoamerican Corridor across Central America. Meanwhile, the majestic Colombian Massif still serves as a refuge for the oncilla, while the puma silently roams the vast expanses of the Paraguayan Chaco fleeing the reprisals of ranchers. The pampas cat pads stealthily among the remaining dry forests of Southern Ecuador and Northern Peru, while the ocelot, a medium-sized cat of nocturnal habits, attempts to camouflage itself in remnants of the Atlantic Rainforest in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. All these scenes allude to the same problem: a group of cats trying to survive in shrinking territories. While the range of these five felines is large and many of them inhabit protected areas, science has shown that to maintain healthy populations there needs to be connection between individuals. In addition to protected areas, they also need access to biological corridors to make contact with other unrelated cats. This is why it is increasingly important that these corridors are either fully protected and have sustainable resource management plans in place to ensure free movement of species. “Establishing corridors is one of the best opportunities, and in many cases the last or only opportunity, for fauna and flora to coexist in landscapes dominated by humans, that is, where plants and animals have the opportunity to move around, improving their chances of survival in the long term,” says José Fernando González Maya, Scientific Director of the Water and Land Conservation Project (ProCAT) and Co-President&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/01/conservation-corridors-provide-hope-for-latin-americas-felines/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>A deadly parasite turns jaguar conservation into a human health priority</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/12/a-deadly-parasite-turns-jaguar-conservation-into-a-human-health-priority/</link>
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					<pubDate>30 Dec 2024 20:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sarah Brown]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Big Cats, Biodiversity, Cats, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecosystems, Habitat, Habitat Loss, Human-wildlife Conflict, Jaguars, Landscape Restoration, Parasites, Research, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[In Brazil’s Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetland, Paul Raad crouched in the undergrowth, scanning the ground for signs of jaguar activity. He wasn’t looking for the big cats themselves; instead, the veterinarian from São Paulo State University (UNESP) was searching for fresh jaguar feces. Spotting a recent sample, Raad carefully collected it, stored it [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In Brazil’s Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetland, Paul Raad crouched in the undergrowth, scanning the ground for signs of jaguar activity. He wasn’t looking for the big cats themselves; instead, the veterinarian from São Paulo State University (UNESP) was searching for fresh jaguar feces. Spotting a recent sample, Raad carefully collected it, stored it in a sterile container, and sent it to a lab to be analyzed. It was one sample of dozens that he’s collected since 2022. The team of technicians at the wildlife postgraduate program at UNESP made a surprising discovery in the jaguar scat: the presence of the tapeworm genus Spirometra. While Spirometra have been widely documented in scat from wildlife in Asia and Europe, this marked their first detection in jaguar droppings in the Pantanal. &#8220;We found it in many fecal samples. [This tapeworm] wasn’t even the main target of the study, but it stood out so much — screaming, ‘Look, I’m here’ — that we ended up prioritizing it,” Felipe Fornazari, a UNESP professor and supervisor of Raad’s master’s research, told Mongabay. Paul Raad examines a Spirometra spp. tapeworm collected from the feces of a jaguar from the Brazilian Pantanal. Image © Eduardo Rossi/UNESP. It was an important discovery. Although parasites evoke negative connotations, researchers see them playing a key role in jaguar conservation. Jaguar populations are at risk from retaliatory killings by farmers, who see them as pests endangering livestock, especially in the Brazilian Pantanal, where about 90% of the land is privately&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/12/a-deadly-parasite-turns-jaguar-conservation-into-a-human-health-priority/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-292539</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Jaguar tracks still stained with blood in Bolivia</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/12/jaguar-tracks-still-stained-with-blood-in-bolivia/</link>
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					<pubDate>24 Dec 2024 12:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Iván Paredes Tamayo]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Bolivia, Latin America, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Conservation, Endangered Species, Environment, Jaguars, Mammals, National Parks, Protected Areas, Wildlife, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[On one Saturday in August 2023, news of a jaguar (Panthera onca) death shook the small streets of the Amazonian town of Ixiamas in Bolivia. It was all community members were talking about, after having found the animal’s carcass on the side of a dirt road leading to the community of Santa Fe. The jaguar’s [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[On one Saturday in August 2023, news of a jaguar (Panthera onca) death shook the small streets of the Amazonian town of Ixiamas in Bolivia. It was all community members were talking about, after having found the animal’s carcass on the side of a dirt road leading to the community of Santa Fe. The jaguar’s head was missing, leading to one hypothesis: that the jaguar had been killed for its fangs. A criminal case was opened, but ultimately nothing happened. Ixiamas is located 866 kilometers (538 miles) from the city of La Paz, the entire municipality is Amazonian and 60% of its territory has been declared a protected area. At 3.7 million hectares (9.1 million acres), Ixiamas is the second-largest municipality in Bolivia, and is home to the Lower Madidi Municipal Conservation and Management Area (AMCM-BM by its Spanish acronym), which, together with Madidi National Park, is the largest jaguar habitat in the country, according to Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Bolivia. In Ixiamas’ main square stands a statue of a jaguar bearing the message, “In this Amazonian municipality, we care for the jaguar.” After Ixiamas’ community members found the dead jaguar in August 2023, they organized themselves and decided to protect the species. They launched campaigns and shared messages promoting the protection of jaguars, while children dressed up as jaguars and paraded through the town’s streets. The jaguar watches over Ixiamas from the town’s main square. Ixiamas’ community members are working to conserve the species. Image by Iván Paredes. “We&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/12/jaguar-tracks-still-stained-with-blood-in-bolivia/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-292109</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Killing of jaguar pushes species’ survival in Argentina’s Gran Chaco to the brink</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/killing-of-jaguar-pushes-species-survival-in-argentinas-gran-chaco-to-the-brink/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Nov 2024 10:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rodolfo Chisleanschi]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Argentina, Latin America, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Big Cats, Conservation, Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, Jaguars, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Quiterio Ramírez’s voice is heavy with anguish at the other end of the phone: “When I saw the jaguar hanging there, the truth is that I cried, but what are we going to do about it? We already lost it.” His voice breaks, and it becomes apparent that tears are welling up in his eyes. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Quiterio Ramírez’s voice is heavy with anguish at the other end of the phone: “When I saw the jaguar hanging there, the truth is that I cried, but what are we going to do about it? We already lost it.” His voice breaks, and it becomes apparent that tears are welling up in his eyes. In late July or early August (the exact date is uncertain), a jaguar was hunted and skinned near the community of Estanislao del Campo, in Argentina’s northern department of Patiño, Formosa province, part of the semiarid Gran Chaco landscape. For Ramírez, what he was feeling now for the jaguar would have been unthinkable just a few years ago: sadness, pain, and now outrage over the loss of a male specimen of the Gran Chaco’s top predator, an animal that he now considers part of his landscape and his world. “El Tipo,” as the locals called this big cat, didn’t even have enough time to receive a real name. It had been recorded by camera traps in February 2024, and again in April. But just months later, it was shot and skinned by a group of hunters who later posted photos of their “trophy” on social media. Scientists from the Jaguar Project, a conservation program for the species that has been working in the Argentine Gran Chaco for a few years, identified El Tipo as M7, since it was the seventh individual jaguar (Panthera onca) detected in the region. This dramatically low number alone shows the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/killing-of-jaguar-pushes-species-survival-in-argentinas-gran-chaco-to-the-brink/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Paraguay’s pumas adapt, with some help, to a ranch-filled landscape</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/paraguays-pumas-adapt-with-some-help-to-a-ranch-filled-landscape/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 Nov 2024 10:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rodolfo Chisleanschi]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Latin America, Paraguay, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Big Cats, Conservation, Endangered Species, Human-wildlife Conflict, Jaguars, Mammals, National Parks, Protected Areas, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[It’s said that lions and tigers stalk the semiarid scrubland of Paraguay’s Chaco region. Yet this is the heart of South America, oceans away from the natural habitat of either of those big cats. Here, “tiger” refers to the jaguar, and “lion” to the puma. The former is three times larger than the latter, and [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[It’s said that lions and tigers stalk the semiarid scrubland of Paraguay’s Chaco region. Yet this is the heart of South America, oceans away from the natural habitat of either of those big cats. Here, “tiger” refers to the jaguar, and “lion” to the puma. The former is three times larger than the latter, and as apex predators sharing the same habitat, their coexistence is a fraught one, but in many ways also beneficial. “They are two big cats; they have the same problems and the same possible solutions to reduce conflicts,” says Laura Villalba, a biologist and coordinator of the jaguar program carried out by the Paraguayan branch of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). “Because of the situation regarding jaguar populations, most conservation efforts are geared toward this species, but anything done for one species is useful for the other.” Jeffrey Thompson, co-coordinator of the jaguar program at another conservation NGO, Guyra Paraguay, notes the contrast in the cats’ respective conservation status: the jaguar (Panthera onca) is considered critically endangered in Paraguay, while the more populous puma (Puma concolor) is considered a species of least concern. A juvenile puma photographed on camera trap. Image courtesy of WCS Paraguay. The northernmost corners of the Gran Chaco, the second-largest forest on the continent, after the Amazon, occupy the northern strip of Indigenous Guaraní land along Paraguay’s border with Bolivia. The area is home to national parks, reserves, public and private natural monuments, and biosphere reserves, all of which form a mosaic&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/paraguays-pumas-adapt-with-some-help-to-a-ranch-filled-landscape/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>At Mexico’s school for jaguars, big cats learn skills to return to the wild</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/10/at-mexicos-school-for-jaguars-big-cats-learn-skills-to-return-to-the-wild/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 Oct 2024 08:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Juan Mayorga]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Latin America, Mexico, and North America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Animals, Big Cats, Biodiversity, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Jaguars, Mammals, Solutions, Wildlife, and Wildlife Rescues]]>
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							<![CDATA[In the grasslands of Yagul, in the central valleys of southern Mexico’s Oaxaca state, a jaguar makes its way through the bushes. It stops suddenly, lowering its head and sharpening its gaze, stalking. With its eyes on its target, it stealthily pounces on it. Just a short run and a jump before the jaguar’s prey [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In the grasslands of Yagul, in the central valleys of southern Mexico’s Oaxaca state, a jaguar makes its way through the bushes. It stops suddenly, lowering its head and sharpening its gaze, stalking. With its eyes on its target, it stealthily pounces on it. Just a short run and a jump before the jaguar’s prey is in its jaws. It sounds like a hunting scene from the wild, but this one is an exercise planned by a team of biologists, veterinarians and ethnologists. The prey isn’t a live animal, but a jute sack stuffed with chicken meat, strung from the end of a pole. &nbsp; The exercise is meant to encourage the jaguar to relearn behavior from its former life in the wild: using its sense of smell to locate its target, its claws and muscles to climb the pole, and its bite and weight to break the rope that ties the chicken-stuffed bag together. Only in this way can it access its prize. “This type of exercise keeps the jaguars active and reduces the impact of captivity and a sedentary lifestyle, which can cause stress and obesity,” says Víctor Rosas Cosío, a jaguar expert and project director of the Yaguar Xoo sanctuary, located 35 kilometers (22 miles) from the city of Oaxaca, the state capital. A jaguar hunts a rabbit in the sanctuary. Image courtesy of Andrea Reyes/Jaguars in the Wild Foundation. For now, the sole aim of the exercise is to keep Balam healthy. This young jaguar (Panthera&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/10/at-mexicos-school-for-jaguars-big-cats-learn-skills-to-return-to-the-wild/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-289023</doi>				</item>
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					<title>For ranchers in Costa Rica, jaguars and pumas become unexpected allies</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/10/for-ranchers-in-costa-rica-jaguars-and-pumas-become-unexpected-allies/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Oct 2024 10:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Darío Chinchilla]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Central America, Costa Rica, and Latin America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Big Cats, Conservation, Environment, Human-wildlife Conflict, Jaguars, Mammals, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[In February this year, a jaguar walked onto Wagner Durán’s family ranch, located near Tortuguero National Park in Costa Rica, and, in an unusual event, killed a calf. This area has the highest density of jaguars in Costa Rica, so it wasn’t unusual for that reason. What made it stand out was that it was [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In February this year, a jaguar walked onto Wagner Durán’s family ranch, located near Tortuguero National Park in Costa Rica, and, in an unusual event, killed a calf. This area has the highest density of jaguars in Costa Rica, so it wasn’t unusual for that reason. What made it stand out was that it was the first time something like this had happened in seven years. But Durán says he doesn’t hold any grudges. In the Lomas Azules community back then, every time a jaguar preyed on a cow it would mean up to $1,000 in losses for the rancher. The environmental authorities were treated as the enemy because they offered no solution, instead prohibiting the hunting of the big cats. “It was decided that you can’t touch the jaguar. What did that do? Make farmers angry and they’d kill the animal [even] faster,” Durán says. His story is a common one among ranchers in the areas close to where jaguars (Panthera onca) and pumas (Puma concolor) hunt in Costa Rica. However, the situation took a turn with the arrival of a collaborative project between the wildcat conservation NGO Panthera and the Costa Rican environmental authorities. The Unit for the Attention for Conflicts with Felines (UACFel) is a pioneering initiative in Latin America, taking in reports of predation and working on solutions for those affected. The initiative promotes peaceful coexistence between ranchers and wildcats through the implementation of advanced technologies and policies that have the added benefit of improving production&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/10/for-ranchers-in-costa-rica-jaguars-and-pumas-become-unexpected-allies/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>After 2-year wait, Sonoran wilderness protection law gets closer to reality</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/07/after-2-year-wait-sonoran-wilderness-protection-law-gets-closer-to-reality/</link>
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					<pubDate>17 Jul 2024 16:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Daniel Shailer]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Latin America, Mexico, and North America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Deforestation, Development, Endangered Species, Environment, Environmental Law, Forest Destruction, Forest Loss, Governance, Jaguars, Land Conflict, Law, Law Enforcement, Lithium, Politics, Protected Areas, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[SAHUARIPA, Mexico — Where saguaro cacti give way to palm trees, some 130 miles south of the U.S. border, a small ranching town is quietly obsessed with jaguars (Panthera onca). Jaguar murals adorn walls, and local ranchers, usually demure and mustachioed, treasure their printouts of big cats caught on camera traps. Sahuaripa is the nearest [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[SAHUARIPA, Mexico — Where saguaro cacti give way to palm trees, some 130 miles south of the U.S. border, a small ranching town is quietly obsessed with jaguars (Panthera onca). Jaguar murals adorn walls, and local ranchers, usually demure and mustachioed, treasure their printouts of big cats caught on camera traps. Sahuaripa is the nearest town to the Northern Jaguar Reserve, 22,600 hectares (56,000 acres) of protected, privately owned land, where trail cameras have captured more than a dozen jaguars padding through the very northernmost reach of their range at any one time. The reserve itself is still several hours’ cross-country drive away from Sahuaripa, part of what struck conservation manager Miguel Gómez Ramírez when he arrived there 16 years ago. “From the start, this seemed like nowhere I had been before, especially because of how far away the reserve is, how difficult it is to get there — the road, the time.” The Northern Jaguar Reserve now sits close to a recently declared lithium mining zone. Image courtesy of the Northern Jaguar Reserve. Recently, however, the reserve has captured a different type of attention. On a trip in April 2024, Gómez Ramírez pulls to the side of a dirt track halfway between Sahuaripa and the first campground and points to a dead palm trunk surrounded by slightly sulfurous mounds of earth. “Everything yellow is lithium,” mixed with clay, he says. Just 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from the edge of the jaguar reserve, this deposit is now part of the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/07/after-2-year-wait-sonoran-wilderness-protection-law-gets-closer-to-reality/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Shrimp farms threaten Mexico’s mangroves and the jaguars that inhabit them</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/07/shrimp-farms-threaten-mexicos-mangroves-and-the-jaguars-that-inhabit-them/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Jul 2024 11:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sarah Brown]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Latin America and Mexico]]>
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							<![CDATA[Aquaculture, Big Cats, Cats, Coastal Ecosystems, Conservation, Deforestation, Endangered Species, Environment, Farming, Forest Loss, Forests, Habitat Loss, Industrial Agriculture, Jaguars, Mangroves, Protected Areas, Species, Tropical Forests, Wildlife, and Wildlife Corridors]]>
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							<![CDATA[Among the spindly saline roots of the mangrove trees that line western Mexico’s coast, the jaguar is the ecosystem’s apex predator. Yet despite being at the top of the food chain, its existence is threatened by the abundance of another, much smaller species: the whiteleg shrimp. Aquaculture of whiteleg shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei), or Pacific white [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Among the spindly saline roots of the mangrove trees that line western Mexico’s coast, the jaguar is the ecosystem’s apex predator. Yet despite being at the top of the food chain, its existence is threatened by the abundance of another, much smaller species: the whiteleg shrimp. Aquaculture of whiteleg shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei), or Pacific white shrimp, has boomed along Mexico’s Pacific coast in the last couple of decades, in the process clearing swaths of mangrove forests and jeopardizing crucial habitats for jaguars (Panthera onca) in the western states of Sinaloa, Sonora and Nayarit., “With shrimp farms in Mexico, you see the destruction of the jaguars’ habitat,” Alfredo Quarto, co-founder of Mangroves Action Project, a conservation NGO, tells Mongabay. “But also of fish, crabs and other animals and birds. It’s very important to have a highly biodiverse supportive habitat.” A jaguar walks at night along the banks of the Santiago River in the mangroves of Nayarit. Image courtesy of Victor Hugo Luja at Jaguares Sin Protección Habitat loss and poaching have shrunk jaguars’ distribution across Mexico by 54%, with about 4,000 to 5,000 of the big cats left in the wild today. In Nayarit, a 2022 study of a nearly 6,300-hectare (15,500-acre) wildlife corridor considered important for jaguar conservation found mangrove coverage there decreased from 35% to 26%, while land used for agriculture and aquaculture rose from 38% to 50% over a 20-year period. Amid the habitat loss, a small reserve in Nayarit offers a haven for jaguars. La Papalota was&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/07/shrimp-farms-threaten-mexicos-mangroves-and-the-jaguars-that-inhabit-them/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Bolivia’s El Curichi Las Garzas protected area taken over by land-grabbers</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/03/bolivias-el-curichi-las-garzas-protected-area-taken-over-by-land-grabbers/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Mar 2024 16:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Nelfi Fernández Reyes]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[global forests]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Forest Trackers]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Amazon, Bolivia, Latin America, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Big Cats, Deforestation, Drug Trade, Dry Forests, Environment, Fires, Forest Loss, Forests, Green, Habitat Loss, Jaguars, Montane Forests, National Parks, Primary Forests, Protected Areas, Rainforests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Regardless of what satellite images show, inhabitants who have illegally planted crops within the protected area told committee officials that they “take care of Curichi”, because each union member’s rice plots do not exceed three hectares. Behind their crops, a row of trees is visible in the background. So, on approaching the area, the officials [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Regardless of what satellite images show, inhabitants who have illegally planted crops within the protected area told committee officials that they “take care of Curichi”, because each union member’s rice plots do not exceed three hectares. Behind their crops, a row of trees is visible in the background. So, on approaching the area, the officials were understandably surprised to discover that more crops lay behind the trees. The Global Forest Watch (GFW) satellite monitoring platform confirms this loss of forest cover. Images show that some 5,005 deforestation alerts were recorded between August 2022 and November 2023. Vitally, 4,558 of that total were generated between October and November 2023 alone. Each deforestation alert represents a loss of 30×30 meters of tropical forest, equivalent to the size of a basketball court. These figures disprove what agricultural union members told officials, saying “this has been going on for 20 years.” Active fire alerts picked up by VIIRS, NASA’s monitoring technology, also reveal that 42 hot spots were recorded between September and November 2023, the highest number for a decade. Fire is often used to clear land in preparation for planting crops. Councilwoman Mónica Vaca Gil, one of the committee members, was shocked by the extent of the damage. She says that she had tried to inspect the reserve in 2021, but was unable to complete her visit because the invaders took the local guide hostage and repeatedly assaulted him, eventually breaking his nose. On that occasion, she says, together with four other council&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/03/bolivias-el-curichi-las-garzas-protected-area-taken-over-by-land-grabbers/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Authorities struggle to protect Bolivian national park from drug-fueled deforestation</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/03/authorities-struggle-to-protect-bolivian-national-park-from-drug-fueled-deforestation/</link>
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					<pubDate>01 Mar 2024 02:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Iván Paredes TamayoNelfi Fernández Reyes]]>
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						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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							<![CDATA[Forest Trackers]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Bolivia, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Big Cats, Deforestation, Drug Trade, Dry Forests, Environment, Fires, Forest Loss, Forests, Green, Habitat Loss, Jaguars, Montane Forests, National Parks, Primary Forests, Protected Areas, Rainforests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 2020, a Mongabay reporting team visited Bolivia’s Amboró National Park and Integrated Management Natural Area and found that portions of its protected forest had been cleared and replaced by illegal coca crops. Coca is a plant native to South America and is used to produce cocaine. Satellite imagery and data show that deforestation has [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 2020, a Mongabay reporting team visited Bolivia’s Amboró National Park and Integrated Management Natural Area and found that portions of its protected forest had been cleared and replaced by illegal coca crops. Coca is a plant native to South America and is used to produce cocaine. Satellite imagery and data show that deforestation has increased in Amboró since then. However, Vice Minister of Social Defense and Controlled Substances, Jaime Mamani, told Mongabay and El Deber reporters that authorities had eradicated some 443 hectares (1,094 acres) of coca crops in the park as of October 2023. Global Forest Watch recorded some 256,000 deforestation alerts between November 2021 and November 2023 in Amboró. Each of the alerts represents the loss of 30 square meters of tropical forest (98.4 square acres). Many of these alerts coincided with fire activity in the park. Román Vitrón, an environmental expert who has worked in the National Service of Protected Areas (known by its Spanish acronym, Sernap) and is familiar with the issues affecting Amboró, said it is highly likely this recent deforestation was done for the purpose of coca cultivation. “Do you think someone interested in planting banana or papaya will go into the park to clear [areas] given how hard it is to get here by foot?” Vitrón told reporters. Vitrón added that coca leaves can be harvested up to four times per year, which makes the crop highly profitable. Andreína Tolavi, former Amboró park director, announced the presence of coca inside the park in&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/03/authorities-struggle-to-protect-bolivian-national-park-from-drug-fueled-deforestation/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>In Brazil&#8217;s Amazon, a clandestine road threatens a pristine reserve</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/in-brazils-amazon-a-clandestine-road-threatens-a-pristine-reserve/</link>
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					<pubDate>24 Nov 2023 20:54:19 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Ana Ionova]]>
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						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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							<![CDATA[Big Cats, Cattle, Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Law, Forests, Governance, Green, Illegal Logging, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Jaguars, Land Rights, Logging, Mongabay Data Studio, Mongabay investigation, Politics, Protected Areas, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Ranching, Roads, Threats To Rainforests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[The makeshift road tears through the emerald canopy, splintering one of the Amazon’s most pristine corridors of rainforest.  Along the edges of the road, running through the heart of the Terra do Meio Ecological Station, swaths of jungle have been razed and turned into pasture. Under federal protection since 2005, Terra do Meio spans 3.37 [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The makeshift road tears through the emerald canopy, splintering one of the Amazon’s most pristine corridors of rainforest.  Along the edges of the road, running through the heart of the Terra do Meio Ecological Station, swaths of jungle have been razed and turned into pasture. Under federal protection since 2005, Terra do Meio spans 3.37 million hectares (8.33 million acres) across the municipalities of Altamira and São Félix do Xingu, strongholds of Brazilian cattle ranching. Tucked deep into the Xingu Basin, it’s part of an ecological mosaic of 28 conservation areas and 21 Indigenous territories that together form a tapestry of forest treasured for its rich biodiversity. Although virtually all human activity is barred within Terra do Meio, the reserve has been battered by invasions in recent years, losing 15,740 hectares (39,000 acres) of primary rainforest between 2019 and 2022, according to data from the University of Maryland visualized on Global Forest Watch. And, despite a sharp drop in overall deforestation across the Amazon this year, the incursions into Terra do Meio have not let up: satellites detected 171,259 high-confidence deforestation alerts between Jan. 6 and Nov. 20 within the protected reserve, the data show. Environmentalists largely blame the devastation within Terra do Meio on pressure from invaders bent on opening up a strategic transport route slicing through the rainforest. They say this risks creating a dangerous new route for illegal timber, gold and – eventually – soy or beef destined for export. “It’s this relentless effort to open up&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/in-brazils-amazon-a-clandestine-road-threatens-a-pristine-reserve/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>For Caatinga’s last jaguars and pumas, wind farms are the newest threat</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/08/for-caatingas-last-jaguars-and-pumas-wind-farms-are-the-newest-threat/</link>
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					<pubDate>22 Aug 2023 09:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Suzana Camargo]]>
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						<![CDATA[Xavier Bartaburu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Big Cats, Conservation, Degraded Lands, Ecology, Endangered Species, Energy, Jaguars, Protected Areas, Wildlife, and Wind Power]]>
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							<![CDATA[Between March 2017 and January 2018, researchers tracked the movements of a female puma as it prowled around the Boqueirão da Onça protected area complex in the north of Brazil’s Bahia state. They’d named her Vitória, the first puma (Puma concolor) in the region to be captured and fitted with a radio collar, which researchers [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Between March 2017 and January 2018, researchers tracked the movements of a female puma as it prowled around the Boqueirão da Onça protected area complex in the north of Brazil’s Bahia state. They’d named her Vitória, the first puma (Puma concolor) in the region to be captured and fitted with a radio collar, which researchers from the Amigos da Onça program, a wildcat project affiliated with conservation nonprofit Pró-Carnívoros, used to map her movements. During this particular period, they noticed a change in Vitória’s roaming. In a part of her range, a wind farm was being constructed, an activity associated with lots of noise, clearing of vegetation for roads, a constant human presence, and a high frequency of vehicle traffic. Quickly, the puma began to avoid the work area and its surroundings. “In those 10 months, she didn&#8217;t cross the area of wind turbines,” says Carolina Esteves, a researcher at Pró-Carnívoros and co-founder of Amigos da Onça. “And this greater movement of the puma, circling the entire complex to reach a water point, implies a bigger energy cost.” Researchers also observed the same behavioral change, of maintaining distance from the construction site, among the region’s jaguars (Panthera onca). Typical open Caatinga landscape in the Boqueirão da Onça region. Image courtesy of Carolina F. Esteves. Pumas and jaguars occur across a range of Brazil’s biomes, with each population differing to a certain degree based on their habitat, Esteves says. Here in the Caatinga, in Brazil’s northeast, the cats, both dun and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/08/for-caatingas-last-jaguars-and-pumas-wind-farms-are-the-newest-threat/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Researchers detect two of Suriname’s most powerful jaguar trafficking networks</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/08/researchers-detect-two-of-surinames-most-powerful-jaguar-trafficking-networks/</link>
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					<pubDate>07 Aug 2023 10:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Astrid Arellano]]>
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						<![CDATA[Astridarellano]]>
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							<![CDATA[China, Latin America, South America, and Suriname]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Big Cats, Cats, Conservation, Crime, Environment, Environmental Law, Illegal Trade, Jaguars, Mammals, Trade, Wildlife, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[Experts on wildlife crime in Suriname monitored and documented two of the most powerful jaguar trafficking networks in South America. The networks, called “SA1” and “SA18,” operate in Suriname and are directed by overseers from China. The investigation provided detailed information on both networks, their trafficking routes, their operational methods, and details on the convergence [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Experts on wildlife crime in Suriname monitored and documented two of the most powerful jaguar trafficking networks in South America. The networks, called “SA1” and “SA18,” operate in Suriname and are directed by overseers from China. The investigation provided detailed information on both networks, their trafficking routes, their operational methods, and details on the convergence of this trafficking with other serious crimes, including human trafficking, illegal mining and money laundering. “The most important message for law enforcement officials, governments and other non-governmental organizations is [that they should] treat jaguar trafficking not just as a simple crime against wildlife, but as a crime that is in the hands of dangerous people who are also involved in other serious crimes; we want to lift the level of the conservation practices to explain that this is more serious than opportunistic jaguar hunting,” said Andrea Crosta, the founder and director of Earth League International (ELI), an NGO that fights environmental and wildlife crimes through research, analysis and intellect. ELI joins the National Committee of The Netherlands within the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which leads Operation Jaguar. This operation is a collaborative project with the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), with support from the Dutch Lottery. A jaguar (Panthera onca). Image by Carlos Navarro. The illegal trafficking of jaguar fangs, bones and other body parts puts these big cats at risk and is an extremely profitable business in Latin America. Throughout the region, jaguars (Panthera onca) are severely threatened by poaching&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/08/researchers-detect-two-of-surinames-most-powerful-jaguar-trafficking-networks/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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