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(07-01-2020, 06:10 AM)Lycaon Wrote: A question for all concerned are jaguars overall safe or not throughout their range ?
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In terms of conservation? I believe they face similar challenges as other big cats due to loss of habitat and poaching, but jaguars also face the challenge of prey loss in many areas where the prey is hunted heavily. The Amazon is vast and still holds most of the jaguar population. In terms of other biomes, I know that while poaching is still a major threat for jaguars in los Llanos, the number of killings have been reduced throughout the years through community outreach, added value of ecotourism and the anti-depredatory measures put in place that I talked about a few weeks ago that have reduced the predation levels on livestock.
I'm just hoping that there isn't a major uptick on jaguar killings due to the virus situation as jaguars are still in a process of recovering from being hunted in the thousands during the last century.
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