Ultimately, conservation is about people. We believe that protecting the world's most imperilled jaguars is as much a social issue as it is a scientific one. That's why each of the Project's programs seeks not only to protect the northern jaguars, but also seeks to motivate people who live in and around them to embrace long-term conservation.
Building Relationships Locally
• Environmental Education
Northern Jaguar Project and Naturalia have developed a region-specific wildlife school curriculum and have donated educational materials concerning regional biodiversity to the local schools. The Project also sponsors regional environmental education workshop in Sahuaripa enabling teachers to collaborate with professional environmental education specialists to develop a municipio-wide conservation program for area schools.
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• Jaguar Guardians
The Jaguar Guardians reside on the reserve where they monitor wildlife, manage motion-triggered remote cameras that capture wildlife photos, patrol the property to prevent poaching, and build relationships with neighboring ranch owners and vaqueros.
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• Wildcat Photo-Survey Contest
The Wildcat Photo-Survey Contest places motion-triggered cameras in known wildlife corridors on the ranches surrounding or near to the reserve. As the cameras document animals, we reward ranch owners for the presence of living wildlife.
Ranchers receive monetary prizes for wildlife photos, vaqueros receive monthly stipends and training in camera maintenance, and researchers gain valuable data concerning the numbers and movements of wildlife species.
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