This adult male jaguar weighing 104 kg was captured in February 2009 in Emas National Park with the aid of the tracking hounds of the Jaguaretê Kennel. As part of the Long Term Jaguar Population Monitoring Program of the Jaguar Conservation Fund / Instituto Onça-Pintada in the region of Emas National Park and surroundings, the animal was anaesthetized for collection of biological material and to be fitted with a GPS collar.

The Caatinga, a semi-arid biome, is located in the northeast of Brazil. Very little is known about the ecology of this biome’s jaguar population. In November 2008, to improve our understanding of the feeding ecology, genetics and health of the jaguar population in the Caatinga, the Jaguar Conservation Fund (JCF) conducted an intensive jaguar scat collection with the help of trained scat detector dogs. This research was conducted in the Serra da Capivara and Serra das Confusões National Parks, Piauí state - JCF’s long-term research areas in the Caatinga.

In November 2008, the Jaguar Conservation Fund captured a female jaguar, with the help of the tracking hounds from the institutional Jaguaretê Kennel, on the Barranco Alto ranch, in the Rio Negro region of the Pantanal, Mato Grosso do Sul state

Jaguaretê Kennel, owned by Jaguar Conservation Fund, is the first kennel in Brazil to breed dogs exclusively for scientific field research. The kennel breeds and trains hounds for tracking jaguars for research projects that require capturing animals to collect biological material, and fit them with radio collars.

In August 2008, the Jaguar Conservation Fund conducted an expedition along the Araguaia River, to collect information about the impact of human activity on the river. The expedition travelled from the region of the Araguaia springs, near Emas National Park, to the city of Barra do Garças, Mato Grosso state.