Happy International Snow Leopard Day!
Today, October 23, is International Snow Leopard Day! This is an unofficial holiday that was created in 2013 at a meeting of all twelve Snow Leopard Range States in Bishkek,…
Category: News
American Jaguars Featured in the Cover Story of the Smithsonian Magazine
In February of this year, Conservation CATalyst and the Center for Biological Diversity created a media firestorm when they released a video of El Jefe: the only known jaguar (Panthera…
Report Claims Traditional Asian Medicine Trade is Behind Dramatic Rise in Jaguar Killings in Bolivia
This past February I shared a story which claimed that the Traditional Asian Medicine trade was taking a heavy toll on Bolivia’s jaguars. Now this article, found on Fox News…
Proposed National Park could be a Lifeline for China’s Big Cats
Hello friends, I have returned from my introduction to field work in the Mattole to find an encouraging story on the IUCN SSC Cat Specialist Group’s Facebook page. The article,…
Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says Permit for the Rosemont Mine should be Denied
In February of this year, trail camera footage of Arizona’s only known jaguar made waves among U.S. news outlets. Many Americans were shocked to learn that a jaguar, known as…
Highly Endangered Iberian Lynx Cubs Born in Spain
Efforts to save the Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus), the most endangered wild felid in the world, may be paying off. According to this press release, a female lynx named Kiowa…
A New Tool for Conserving Jaguars: Beer
This has to be one of the most unanticipated and uplifting stories I have yet shared on this blog. A Peruvian beer brand known as Cerveza San Juan has joined…
Farmers and Conservation Organizations Unite to Create Jaguar-Friendly™ Ecolabel
I have just found an exciting article on Jaguars.org’s Facebook page. The story, originally posted by The Wildlife Friendly Enterprise Network (WFEN), concerns a new development in the fight to…
The Jaguar 