Gone for Decades, Jaguars Steal Back to the Southwest
Carnivore conservation has a great story on the slow and threatened return of the jaguar to the American Southwest.
If the border fence is built, I think part of the plan should be a reintroduction of jaguar.
Note that President Bush recently signed an authoization to build a 700 mile fence along the Arizona/Mexico border, but authorizations require appropriations. These are often not forthcoming, and the whole thing might be an election year stunt. In the next Congress conservationists should lobby for jaguar money.

Ralph Maughan
Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University. He has been a Western Watersheds Project Board Member off and on for many years, and also its President. For many years he produced Ralph Maughan's Wolf Report. He was a founder of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He and Jackie Johnson Maughan wrote three editions of "Hiking Idaho." He also wrote "Beyond the Tetons" and "Backpacking Wyoming's Teton and Washakie Wilderness." He created and is the administrator of The Wildlife News.
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I’m just wandering if the fact that some jaguars are in southwest could legally stop the building of the border fence ? It was not obvious in the article what is the legal status of the jaguar in the US (is it listed ?)
The jaguar was listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act in 1997, following a lengthy legal and grassroots campaign by the Center for Biological Diversity.
You can learn much more about the subject (and about the numerous roadblocks on the path to jaguar recovery) by going to their web site and looking through the “Late Breaking News” section. There have been a number of press releases archived there, including one on the lawsuit (URL below).
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/swcbd/press/jaguar-07-12-2006.html
Whether or not the fence can be stopped by invoking the ESA is questionable. Ultimately, the courts will probably decide, unless the political winds change in the meantime and funding for the fence is never appropriated.