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"The young, muscular male approached from the east at about 4am. He paused
briefly in front of the motion-sensor camera, seemingly posing for the photo.
“It was overall a moment of euphoria,” says Emily Burns, programme director at
the Sky Island Alliance conservation group in Arizona, as she walks along a
rutted forest service road towards a canyon framed by lichen-covered cliffs.
“I was equal parts thrilled and shocked that there was a jaguar here.”
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.
Yet numerous obstacles remain to re-establishing a jaguar population in the US.
The wide-ranging cat faces growing climate extremes, habitat loss – and the
continued impact of the Trump administration’s border wall, which has severed
wildlife corridors and fragmented ecosystems throughout the region."
Via
Future Crunch:
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
