Interesting article I found. The conservationists hope the Jaguars will come back from Mexico. I fear for them now with Trump and his gang in charge.
Thanks for post.
U.S. Designates Critical Habitat for Endangered Jaguars
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Posted by News EditorWildlife on March 5, 2014 1:47 pm
PHOENIX, Arizona, March 5, 2014 (ENS) – Endangered jaguars will have 1,194 square miles of critical habitat in southern Arizona and New Mexico for their recovery, under a rule finalized by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday.
The gold and black-spotted jaguar, Panthera onca, is the world’s third-largest cat, after tigers and lions.
Jaguars once roamed from southern California through the Southwest and lived in Louisiana, Kentucky and North Carolina, but only six, possibly seven, jaguars, all males, have been detected in the United States since 1982, says the Service.
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The jaguar is the only Panthera species native to the Americas. (Photo by Eric Kilby / Flickr Creative commons)
No documented females or breeding pairs have occurred in the United States for over 50 years. The last female jaguar in the United States was shot by a hunter in 1963 on Arizona’s Mogollon Rim.
Jaguars still live in Mexico and points south, and have been seen within 40 miles of the Mexico-U.S. border. But the big cats have largely disappeared from their U.S. range due to clearing of forests and draining of wetlands and killing to protect livestock. The species is categorized as Near Threatened on the authoritative IUCN Red List.
Conservationists say protected habitat in the United States will allow jaguars to naturally repopulate their former range as they move northward from the nearest core population in Mexico.
“Welcome home, American jaguar,” said Michael Robinson of the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity, which has filed three lawsuits over many years in support of jaguar recovery................
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