Ten photos of jaguar near at site of 6,990-acre Rosemont mine project area-
Arizona is pockmarked with abandoned copper pit after pit and associated toxic tailings. There are also some active pits and old ones starting back up. Finally there are plans for another new giant pit on the north end of the Santa Rita Mountains […]
Continue Reading →Some good news for the day. An apparently healthy male jaguar has been documented in southern Arizona. This is good news after the Macho B incident where another male jaguar, the only one known to live in the entire US, was trapped and later died due to trapping stress. We wrote about that incident […]
Continue Reading →Emil McCain pleads guilty to a misdemeanor crime: illegal take of an endangered species-
Jaguar trapper guilty. Arizona Daily Star
Continue Reading →Was Macho B intentionally caught?
The question about whether or not jaguar scat was placed at the trap site or not is the focus of the article. One former employee says she placed the scat at the trap site on the orders of her boss while the employee who was fired recently says she is […]
Continue Reading →Panthera, devoted to conserving wildcats, not thrilled by decision to set aside “critical habitat” for jaguar-
In his NYT op-ed piece yesterday, “Jaguars Don’t Live Here Anymore,” Alan Rabinowitz, head of Panthera, is not thrilled that USFWS has finally decided to start the ESA process of designating critical habitat for the […]
Continue Reading →Does this mean they deliberately killed the state’s last jaguar?
Arizona Intentionally Snared Last Jaguar, Inquiry Finds. By Leslie Kaufman. New York Times.
Continue Reading →Good news below in the press release from the Center for Biological Diversity-
Capping a 13-year battle to save the American jaguar from extinction, this week the Center for Biological Diversity won a decision from the Obama administration to develop a recovery plan and protect essential habitat for North America’s largest and most endangered cat.
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Continue Reading →On last day of court-ordered deadline, USFWS does not announce plan, but asks for an extension-
U.S. Fish and Wildlife misses deadline on jaguar recovery plan. By Susan Montoya Bryan. Associated Press.
Continue Reading →Documents and e-mails suggest state may have lacked authority to take cat
Could the capture and subsequent death of the only wild jaguar in the U.S. by Arizona Game and Fish have been illegal?
Permit for jaguar’s capture questioned
ARIZONA DAILY STAR
U.S. Opens Criminal Inquiry Into Death of Arizona Jaguar. By John Dougherty.NYTimes.com
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