Beautiful. Agile. Powerful.
These are just a few reasons why the mighty jaguar http://www.care2.com/causes/olympics-mascot-juma-the-jaguar-shot-dead.html has been revered by different indigenous societies. The jaguar is also revered for its adability: it's a big cat that's comfortable moving in between trees and water come day or night.
But modernity has been a fierce opponent for the king of the Americas. So you can imagine the excitement that the 2011 sighting of a male jaguar -- later named El Jefe -- in the United States conjured. Unfortunately, El Jefe's return is already in jeopardy. http://www.care2.com/causes/protect-wildlife-stop-the-rosemont-copper-project-in-arizona-video.html
El Jefe's Journey
El Jefe (jefe translates to boss or chief) probably made the long journey to Arizona's Santa Rita Mountains by way of Mexico. The 200-pound jaguar was actually
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The government agency justifies this bogus approval on the basis that there are wild jaguars roaming in Mexico, Central and South America. But so what? Wouldn't it be amazing to reintroduce healthy jaguar populations to the U.S.? Disturbing El Jefe's habitat will only setback jaguar reintroduction efforts.
But here's a newsflash for the FWS: Decreasing jaguar populations outside of the U.S. aren't exactly in the clear, either. The IUCN Red List http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/15953/0
classifies them as Near Threatened because of: high deforestation rates in Latin America, forest fragmentation and heavy persecution. The jaguar actually went regionally extinct in El Salvador and Uruguay.
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Jen Viegas Seeker in the article, more the half of primates are threatened with extinction.
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Kautz, Randy et al. How much is enough? Landscape-scale conservation for the Florida panther. Biological Conservation 2006, 130: 118-133
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Thousands of years ago, hunting may have been the cause of the extinction of the North American large land mammals. “Moving up into the 1940’s and 50’s some of today’s most prominent game animals were almost non-existent.”(Kerry G) Over-hunting will directly cause the decline in the particular animal’s species. This will effect everything around it, for example ...
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In our world today we have approximately 26,021 endangered species. Endangered species are organisms that may possible become extinct. The term 'endangered species' refers to all species that fits this description. However some conservation biologists and scientists normally use the term ‘endangered species’ to refer to species that are put on the IUCN(International Union for Conservation of Nature)Red List. Many factors can be looked at when considering the conservation status of a species. Factors such as human threats or environmental threats can cause a species to become endangered.