A conservation group with cameras set up along the U.S.-Mexico borderlands say they’ve confirmed new jaguar sightings there marking the latest in a handful of sightings over the last few years.Jaguars have an ancestral homeland that includes northern Sonora and southern Arizona and many still cross back and forth today. But overhunting, habitat loss and border
"Jaguars once roamed throughout the American south-west, but they were hunted to local extinction by the 1960s. In the 1990s, the elusive cat began to occasionally reappear in the rugged Sky Islands mountain ranges in New Mexico and Arizona. Now, a series of sightings in the region over the past year marks the endangered predators’ tentative return."
A series of sightings suggests the big cats are, against the odds, growing in numbers in New Mexico and Arizona. But Trump’s border wall could yet halt their progress
The Sky Island Alliance s wildlife camera network has captured two jaguar sightings in the Whetstone Mountains – one in May 2023 and another in November 2023.