When the last known jaguar to consistently roam in the U.S. died of kidney failure after being captured and collared, many questions about the legality of the permit to collar Macho B were asked, including a call for a federal investigation.
Now, the Center for Biological Diversity is doing something about it, suing […]
Continue Reading →U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to designate lands in Arizona and New Mexico-
Not all endangered species receive a designated “critical habitat.” This is a big thing for the big cat that is a rare inhabitant of the SW U.S. The trouble is jaguars may not even inhabit the United States on a continuing basis. […]
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 →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 →The investigation of Macho B’s death is ongoing
I saw this story but was too busy to post it when it was published last month. I’m posting it now because I think it is an important story and also because we’ve been covering the saga of Macho B, the last wild jaguar in the […]
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
Former Arizona Game and Fish Employee claims she was told to bait the trap with female jaguar scat obtained from the Phoenix Zoo or the Reid Park Zoo.
I baited jaguar trap, research worker says
Arizona Daily Star
USFWS and Arizona Game and Fish in a sloppy screw-up?
An interesting article today in Demarcated Landscapes.
Update. Jaguar may have experienced ‘capture myopathy’. Necropsy by zoo inconclusive, two outside vets say. By Tim Steller. Arizona Daily Star
Update 4/2. I baited jaguar trap, research worker says. Attorney general opens investigation into […]
Continue Reading →Non-invasive techniques such as hair traps, camera traps, and scat samples can tell biologists a lot about habitat use and population size
Tools That Leave Wildlife Unbothered Widen Research Horizons. By Jim Robbins. New York Times
There has been a lot of discussion on this blog about radio collars and other invasive techniques used […]
Continue Reading →Demarcated Landscapes has this post concerning the death of an Arizona jaguar that was recently collared in an effort to track its movement.
They killed “euthanized” Macho B – DL
This is a particularly saddening loss – there have been only 4 jaguars known to have visited north of the border in recent […]
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