Jaguar have always disregarded national borders, but some threats are keeping the big cats contained within the territories that they inhabits. The spread of extensive monoculture plantations, illegal ...

See more in National Geographic News.) At dusk one evening, deep in a Costa Rican forest, a young male jaguar rises from his sleep, stretches, and silently but determinedly leaves forever the ...

How can one call jaguar spirits from the forest if the forest has no jaguars? “You can’t erase a spirit,” he said. “The body may have died, but the spirit is still here.” And yet he ...

The Center will advocate for dogged legal prosecution and punishment for anyone illegally killing a jaguar. 11. Do you expect jaguars will wander out of the Gila National Forest and into other areas?

Reports and scientific studies described in the petition found the Gila National Forest and the broader Mogollon Plateau, extending northwest to the Grand Canyon, have excellent jaguar habitat. The ...

Jaguars are currently Near Threatened. However, with its forest home increasingly being destroyed, and conflict growing with farmers and ranchers, the remaining jaguar population is declining under ...