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First jaguars born in the Iberá National Park in Argentina in over a century!

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There’s great news for jaguars in Argentina. 

Two jaguar cubs have been born – the first to be born from the Tompkins Conservation’s Jaguar Reintroduction Programme and the first jaguars to be born in decades in the region.

So how did this come about?

Back in 1983, 3.2 million acres was established - the Iberá Natural Reserve in Corrientes province, North East Argentina.  It created a tremendous opportunity for jaguar restoration.

And the Conservation Land Trust (CLT) was established there;   it is ecologically restoring 370,000 acres of former cattle ranches to establish Argentina’s largest national park inside the larger Iberá reserve.

And CLT started a programme to reintroduce those large mammals that became extirpated inside Iberá during the XXth century.    

After re-establishing the presence of giant anteaters and pampas deer there, jaguars are next. 

The Tompkins Conservation team in Argentina consists of vets and scientists, community stakeholders and policy makers – and they’ve all collaborated with the goal of breeding a generation of jaguars that could be released into their natural habitat and survive in the wild on their own.



There are about 200 individuals in the wild in Argentina today, and about 15,000 jaguars roam the wild worldwide.

The goal is to restore a stable 100 jaguar population to Iberá National Park – these jaguar cubs are a great start. 

For more information on this Jaguar programme, click here

 

 

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