Xamã is a year old. In August 2022, the jaguar cub was found all by himself, extremely malnourished and feeble, on private land in the municipality of Sinop, in Brazil’s Mato Grosso. His mother was not around. She’d probably died, or the two may have been separated by a large fire nearby. Rescued by environmental […]
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), […]
Less than a decade since conservation actions helped pull the hyacinth macaw out of Brazil’s endangered species list, the iconic cobalt-blue bird is back in the red, driven there by the loss of its habitat and a changing climate. Brazil’s National Center for Research and Conservation of Wild Birds (Cemave) updated the bird’s category, from […]