Save the jaguar
Arizona Republic [March 8, 2008]
Politics should provide a way to protect and enhance those jaguar populations. After all, the Endangered Species Act exists because Americans care about conservation.
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Group enlists OV in fight to save endangered jaguars
Northwest Explorer [December 31, 2007]
Motion-triggered cameras along the Arizona-Sonora border during the day capture images of illegal immigrants and hikers, according to Bill Van Pelt, a state game biologist.
At night, on those same trails, the cameras snap stills of jaguars.
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Native jaguars need help
The Young Reporters
Tucson Citizen [November 11, 2007]
The Northern Jaguar Project needs your help preserving endangered wild cats.
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New border fence rising
Arizona Daily Star [September 9, 2007]
Despite opposition groups' objections, federal officials are fast-tracking construction of barriers.
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The great American cat fight
High Country News [August 20, 2007]
Phantom cat of forest and desert, the jaguar slinks through its surroundings, an optical illusion of tawny, sun-dappled fur. It manifests and evaporates with hardly a trace amid the darkness of South American rainforests and the shattered canyons of the arid Southwest.
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Borders without fences
The New York Times [February 24, 2007]
KELLY, WY - In the debate over how to prevent illegal immigration from México into the United States — armed patrols, electronic surveillance, prison time for first offenders and a 700-mile-long 15-foot-high fence — few politicians have voiced concern over the last option's profound effects on wildlife.
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Gone for decades, jaguars steal back to the Southwest
The New York Times [October 10, 2006]
SANTA FE, N.M.- Using the same clandestine routes as drug smugglers, male jaguars are crossing into the United States from México. Four of the elusive cats have been photographed in the last decade - one as recently as last February - in the formidable, rugged mountain ranges of southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico.
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Northern jaguar migration may require binational cooperation
El Universal [July 10, 2006]
The jaguar is a symbol of Méxican identity, venerated widely from the Maya civilization of the southeastern seaboard to the Huichol culture of the west central mountains. Now, in the past several years, northward migration of the endangered species into the United States has made it a potential emblem of binational conservation.
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Automated cameras spot jaguars in Southern Arizona
Arizona Daily Star [October 19, 2004]
Automated cameras have filmed at least two jaguars creeping across Southern Arizona since late August (2004), offering fresh evidence that the endangered cats at least visit here from México.
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