On the evening of March 15, 2016, two large jaguars walked along a narrow lakeshore trail in Venezuela’s Llanos ecosystem, a vast mosaic of seasonally flooded lowland savannas, forests, pastures and ranches. At 9:13 p.m., they passed a remote camera trap set by Włodzimierz Jędrzejewski, a researcher at the Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research (IVIC), […]
Fires that swept across South America's Pantanal wetlands in 2020 burned thousands of square kilometres of critical jaguar habitat and may threaten the big cats' long-term survival, new research reveals. The blazes displaced, injured or killed 45% of the region's 1,668 jaguars, the second-largest jaguar population in the world, according to the study published on Thursday in the journal Communications Biology.