JAGUAR BIBLIOGRAPHY
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- Title:
- The borderlands jaguar detection project: a report on the jaguar in southeastern Arizona.
- Year Published:
- 2007
- Authors:
- Childs J.L., McCain E.B., Childs A.M., Brun J.
- Abstract:
- The jaguar was virtually unknown in the desert environment of the American Southwest in 1996. Historic records suggested a small and declining population until the 1940s. After this time, only an occasional jaguar was reported about every 10 years. The species was therefore generally thought to be absent from the area and was overlooked for protection by the Endangered Species Act. Following the two 1996 sightings, the Arizona and New Mexico Game and Fish Departments joined forces and created the Arizona-New Mexico Jaguar Conservation Team (Jag Team) in 1997, complete with a Scientific Advisory Group of the world's leading jaguar biologists. This team of state and federal wildlife and land management agencies, university biologists, conservation groups, local landowners, ranchers and concerned citizens was formed in a collaborative approach to help protect and manage the jaguar and its habitat in Arizona and New Mexico. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service formally listed the jaguar as an endangered species in the United States the same year. In March 2001, Anna and I founded The Borderlands Jaguar Detection Project with the help and support of the Jag Team. The focus of this project is two-fold. Our goals are to describe and quantify the current status and distribution of jaguars in the borderlands region and apply our findings to sound conservation management through the Jag Team and its land management members.
- Journal:
- Wild Cat News: 1-9
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