What is it about?
Jaguars used to be found through the Atlantic forest of eastern Brazil, northeastern Argentina and eastern Paraguay but in all three countries but due to deforestation and persecution only small populations remain within the largest remaining forest fragments. In eastern Paraguay only about 20 jaguars remain in two forest reserves, Mbaracayu and Morombi. We captured and put GPS satellite collars on 4 jaguars within these reserves. We found that almost all movements were confined to the protected areas, with almost no movements into the surrounding agricultural land.
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Why is it important?
Our finding show that jaguars in the remaining populations
Perspectives
Our research illustrates the isolation of jaguar populations in the Paraguayan Atlantic forest and it is my hope that this will lead to a serious discussion about the genetic rescue of the remaining populations and efforts to restore forest cover and increase connectivity among forest remnants in eastern Paraguay.
Jeffrey J Thompson Thompson
Guyra Paraguay
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This page is a summary of: Spatial ecology of Paraguay’s last remaining Atlantic forest Jaguars (Panthera onca): implications for their long-term survival, Biodiversity, January 2019, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/14888386.2019.1590237.
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