AZ Wildife Officials Collar United States’ First Wild Jaguar
Since the U.S. federal government has bisected the jaguar’s natural habitat with an impenetrable border wall, it’s now a North American species. Looks like it’s time to revisit the (rejected by Bush) Endangered Species Act paperwork for this majestic cat.
Jaguar conservation has just experienced an exciting development with the capture and collaring of the first wild jaguar in Arizona by the Arizona Game and Fish Department.
The male cat was incidentally captured yesterday in an area southwest of Tucson during a research study aimed at monitoring habitat connectivity for mountain lions and black bears. While individual jaguars have been photographed sporadically in the borderland area of the state over the past years, the area where this animal was captured was outside of the area where the last known jaguar photograph was taken in January.
