23.03.09

Jaguar Conservation Fund supports INPA in studying jaguars in the Amazon rainforest, Brazil

In the Brazilian Amazon forest, the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisa na Amazônia (National Institute for Research in the Amazon – INPA), in collaboration with researchers from Spain and Mexico, is implementing a project studying the ecology and genetics of jaguars through non-invasive methods like camera traps, track plates and scat collection. Scat samples provide information about a species’ diet, as well as its health status. Through DNA extraction, the species can be confirmed and sex and individuals can be identified. As it is generally difficult to locate jaguar scats visually, the Jaguar Conservation Fund sent Raphael Almeida...

02.03.09

Wild jaguar euthanized in Arizona, USA

On the 2nd of March a wild jaguar was euthanized after being captured, released and recaptured by the Arizona Game and Fish Department. As azcentral.com related, the roughly about 16-year-old male was put down because of failing kidneys...

11.02.09

Jaguar recorded for the first time in 100 years in central Mexico

Due to habitat loss and hunting, there have been no records of jaguars in central Mexico since the beginning if the 20th century. However, recently, researchers from Mexico and Spain obtained photographic records of a male jaguar in this region...