FIELD CONSERVATION & RESEARCH PROJECTS |
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Field conservation and research efforts for the jaguar are detailed below. For further information simply click on the links to be redirected to the relevant organisation or project websites.
Projects are categorised alphabetically by the lead organisation.
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| Borderlands Jaguar Detection Project |
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Borderlands Jaguar Detection Project |
| Location: |
Arizona, USA & Sonora, Mexico |
| Summary: |
A non-invasive study designed to detect jaguars in the remote mountains along the border between southern Arizona and Sonora, Mexico. |
| Fundação Ecológica Cristalino |
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Gente e Onças |
| Location: |
Alta Floresta, Brazilian Amazon |
| Summary: |
The People & Jaguars Coexistence Project aims at understanding the historical, psychological, economic, cultural and social factors that explain peoples' attitudes and behaviours towards jaguars in Brazil. Assessments of knowledge, beliefs and attitudes to jaguars among landowners and their families have been carried out in the Atlantic Forest, Pantanal, western Amazonia and Amazon agricultural frontier. On the Amazon frontier, education and communication interventions to improve human-jaguar relationships have been developed based on the results of the research. |
| See also: |
Silvio Marchini's webpage |
| Northern Jaguar Project & Naturalia |
| Project Title: |
Various |
| Location: |
Sierra Madre Occidental, México |
| Summary: |
In 2004 the Northern Jaguar Project partnered with Naturalia to establish the 10,000-acre Los Pavos Jaguar Reserve. They are now working to establish the Northern Jaguar Reserve. The Northern Jaguar Project incorporates the Jaguar Guardians Program, and an Education Program. They are also involved in research and environmental restoration initiatives . |
| Pró-Carnívoros |
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Pró-Carnívoros have several research projects throughout Brazil which focus on jaguars. Some of these projects are collaborations with CENAP (ICMBio) |
| Location: |
Brazil |
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For details of each project visit the Projects Page of the Pró-Carnívoros website |
| ProCAT |
| Project Title: |
Proyecto Conservación del Área Talamanca |
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Costa Rica |
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Proyecto Conservación del Área Talamanca (ProCAT) has the goal of improving the state of biodiversity knowledge for the Caribbean Talamanca Region of Costa Rica so that management and conservation decision-making can be based on a solid scientific foundation. The project's focal species is the jaguar, which once inhabited the entire region but is now rare or absent throughout much of its historic range. |
| Projeto Puma |
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Jaguar corridor in the Atlantic Rain Forest |
| Location: |
South-east Brazil |
| Summary: |
The project aims to find and protect core areas of jaguar
habitat in the vanishing Atlantic Forest.
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| Wildlife Conservation Society |
| Project Title: |
Jaguar Conservation Program |
| Location: |
Range-wide |
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The program includes jaguar population and distribution surveys, ecological studies, human-jaguar conflict research and rancher outreach, population monitoring, and health and genetic research. WCS partners many local scientists and the majority of funds are disrtibuted to projects throughout the jaguar's range. |
To add details of a project or to make a correction please contact us. |
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