The Jaguar in Iberá

[Balam]

(01-21-2021, 09:06 PM)Dark Jaguar Wrote: @Balam

Glad you've spoken to them, Keep your contact with them and keep an eye on weights datas as well.


I also heard in Argentina they started a conservation project by Fundación Rewilding Argentina to study the Maned Wolves in Iberá using VHF and GPS technology and they have collared The first Maned Wolf ever in Argentina so massive congrats to all professionals involved and to the ones who gave support and I am gonna post about it.


About Leandro he is well aware about the Iberá rewild project and he appreciates their great job, he mentions it on one of his recent videos about why Coragem cerrado cub can't return back to nature and how expensive it is to introduce top predators into the wild and I agree with what you said regarding the breeding his adult jaguars to help.


The jaguars sanctuaries and semen collection as you know are reserved for the most vunerable biomes population wise in Brazil, Caatinga and the divided Atlantic Forest are on top priority in case they sucumb specially for Caatinga jaguars since if conservation isn't done and well applied the small numbers of wild Caatinga jaguars left in Northeast Brazil would be the first ones to disappear today and that'll be the moment the Reprocon's semen collection and all captive jaguars kept for this porpoise in Brazil take action. But I gotta say Caatinga jaguars wouldn't be pure bred anymore ( Caatinga houses a massive unique melanism genetic density in its jaguars) which is bad but with no opitions better have mixed wild jaguars than no jaguars at all haha, the best thing to do is to avoid extinction at all costs.


And I'll post more in the Jaguars of Brazil thread more often on these brazilian biomes as I get free time.


I can imagine how hard the bureaucracy is for permissions to legally allow translocations of native wild animals between 2 countries or more.


It would be good act of Leandro and IOP if they donated a few brazilian jaguars (in conditions to be worked for rewild) for Iberá, they would play big role just like Jatobarzinho young male.


NEX No Extinction donated 2 female jaguars (Juruna and Mariua) to Iberá. They were rescued from the wild after their mother died at the hands of hunters. In the NEX Center near Brasília they remained with minimal contact with humans until they were donated to the Jaguar Reintroduction Project in Iberá.


Back to Leandro outside of jaguars in his sanctuary in Goiás State he and his Institute IOP also keep 200 Black Caimans juveniles approved by the Goiás State Environmental Secretariat (SEMAD) the State environmental authority which is quite controversial as the Crocodilians are conducted in an area outside the species distribution, the IOP staff announced the implementation of an ex-situ conservation breeding program for Black Caimans (M. niger) as a potential genetic reservoir for an endangered species and the Crocodilian experts community of Brazil isn't liking this idea since his sanctuary doesn't have enough structure to house such a formidable Top predator as Black Caimans and there's risks of them escaping from the sanctuary with unpredictable ecological consequences in environments where Black Caimans has never occurred.


The Black caiman’s escaping dispersal in the Cerrado or Pantanal would be tragic to the ecossystem as the Black Caimans would impact the local predators of the Biomes and such a top predator that can reach and surpass 6 meters in length could lead the risk of potentially creating conficts with local communities.


Thats what is worring the Brazilian Crocodilian-Research community including the brazilian Black Caiman expert Ronis da Silveira about the safety of the enclosures used by IOP to avoid the escape of M. niger individuals larger than 1.5 m to avoid unnecessary ecological damage and also Neither IOP nor SEMAD has contacted any crocodilian specialist in Brazil to assess the current state of the animals and define criteria for making decisions about their future.


So Leandro, his wife and (SEMAD) holds a huge responsability on their hands, Lets just Hope and prey no accidents of Black Caimans escaping happen in their sanctuary.

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This is the Official link complaint about the juveniles Black Caimans case in IOP that was recently published by Brazilian Crocodilians Specialists.

You must Check it Out.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication..._community

To be honest, out of this whole situation to me the organization that keeps shining and showing their impeccable work is Oncafari, I mentioned in the opening post of this thread how crucial they were in the rescue of Jotabazinho and the two sisters for further rewilding in Ibera. Oncafari was the first organization to release orphaned jaguars back into the wild, where IOP failed, and their first-hand knowledge is what is allowing this reintroduction project in Ibera to take place.

The biologist for Oncafari are setting themselves apart as world renounced for big cat conservation, I'm very proud of them, and yet they're very open to the public and in helping all of us who are interested in jaguar ecology by providing information. They have been nothing but kind to me as they provide me data, whereas IOP refuses to release data to the public. 

It seems to me that the team at IOP is involved in a series of controversial projects such as the one you mentioned involving the black caiman on a foreign habitat. Moreover, I still find it uneasy that he's breeding jaguars to keep them in captivity and subjecting them to stress at a young age, depriving them of proper contact with other jaguars, and this was the impression I got from the jaguar Coragem. The video where he explained why he thought he could not be released into the wild did not seat well with me. Coragem appeared extremely agitated, I can't think for a youngster like him the isolation it is would do any good. Why not just bring it to Ibera to continue helping jaguar conservation in a practical way? The permits needed for a jaguar that was born in captivity are different and I assume the relocation process would be easier to get done.

Overall, I can say that I'm not a big fan of the work of Leandro, he's done some really good things for jaguar conservation throughout his career, but other decisions he's made I can't help but disagree on. Reply