Tag: jaguars

December 14, 2020

TWS2020: Mexican farm trends affect jaguar land use

Jaguars don’t always need pristine, untouched wild areas to get by in parts of central Mexico, but they do need a decent level of vegetation cover. Ongoing surveys in Mexico’s...

November 20, 2020

Rehabilitated jaguar released in Yucatan after car strike

A jaguar struck by a car in Mexico was released into a biological reserve after 100 days of rehabilitation. The animal, hit several months ago, was quickly discovered by a...

June 29, 2018

The July/August Issue of The Wildlife Professional

Poachers and smugglers try to outwit wildlife conservation officers on a daily basis. Efforts to combat wildlife crime and change these illegal behaviors are the focus of the July/August cover...

November 11, 2016

Scat: The first step in conserving Mesoamerican jaguars

Rare and elusive wildlife species such as jaguars can be tricky to study in the wild, especially when it comes to genetics. But noninvasive scat sampling has allowed researchers to...

October 12, 2016

WSB study: Jaguars and humans may sometimes live in harmony

Jaguars are symbols of wild rainforest ecosystems, but new research suggests they are not limited to such remote haunts. In the state of Nayarit on Mexico’s western coast, jaguars (Panthera...