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Choose a Scientific Eco-Tour to participate as volunteer:

• Look for tigers, elephants, and leopards in the jungles of Indonesia, Sumatra

• Look for jaguars and pumas in the Brazilian Rainforests

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Jaguar main prey
Photos taken by camera traps


Collared peccary
Pecari tajacu


White-lipped peccary
Tayassu pecari


Capibara
Hidrochoerus hidrochaeris

 

Land Trust for
reserve purchase

Buy a parcel of the total land and be entitled to schedule prolongued visits to the wildlife reserve throughout the year, at no cost.

Cats need large territories to live. We are selecting key areas to establish reserves and permanent base camps, in the Araucaria and Atlantic Rainforests of Brazil. We also plan to seek areas in Sumatra. Contributions are tax-deductible.
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Jaguars are in critical situation in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil. We have found that the species have disappeared at the alarming rate of 1 degree of latitued every ten years during the last five decades. See the original published article. That is the reason we launched Conservation Expeditions, to bring people from all over the world to help the species' conservation.

The Jaguar Corridor project begun in 2006 with the participation of international volunteers. Expeditions are conducted every year to map the current core areas of distribution of jaguars and access their conservation status. Since its conception, the project has produced three reports from data collected with the help of international volunteer groups recruited in collaboration with Biosphere Expeditions (see latest report).
The following GIS map display previous and current places where jaguars have been found in the study area. Current places include the Guaratuba bay and the 'Cachoeira' reserve owned by the NGO Society for Wildlife Research and Environmental Education (SPVS).

Map elaborated from GIS features provided by the Foundation of Environment (Fatma - State of Santa Catarina), Paraná Institute of Environment (IAP, Paraná), Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewed Resources (IBAMA), and Society for Wildlife Research and Environmental Education (SPVS). Jaguar records prior to 1997 are displayed with permission of M.R. Leite (Leite M.Sc. thesis, 2000).

Group at SVPS' reserve, from left to right: João Pontes, Jeferson Chagas, Marcelo Mazzolli (Projeto Puma), Vandil Vega. Marcelo spent some time in the reserve testing and setting their camera traps, and producing field protocols.

A jaguar track photographed by Vandil Vega, attesting the presence of jaguar in the SPVS' 'Cachoeira' reserve, at the location shown above.


Jaguar videos

The following video was shot in the Morro do Diabo State Park, western Paraná (Southern Brazil), in 19th february 2009. Full Youtube URL is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKb91l2vmoM

 


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