Jaguar News, nº 18
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Implementing the Araguaia River Biodiversity Corridor: Conserving Species, Managing Resources and Preserving Cultures
The Araguaia River is Brazil's third-largest river outside of the Amazon basin. With its springs in the Cerrado in the region of Emas National Park and its mouth in the Amazon biome, its 1,800 km divide four Brazilian states (Goiás, Mato Grosso, Tocantins, Pará). The parks, reserves and indigenous lands distributed along its course turn the Araguaia into one of the most conserved river of Brazil, with a rich biodiversity. Its major importance lies in the fact that along its entire course there is not a single hydroelectric dam. Thus, its landscape and land use pattern permits the movement of fauna along its banks, constituting an important corridor for the native fauna on an ecosystem scale. For threatened species, especially those that depend on large areas with native vegetation for movement, like the jaguar, the Araguaia River provides important habitat for establishing home ranges and dispersion. Considering all physical and geographical characteristics of the Araguaia River, it is of extreme importance that it is managed and protected as a whole, from its springs to its mouth.
Jaguars registered at the borders of the Araguaia River through camera-traps. Photo: Jaguar Conservation Fund. |
Araguaia River at Cantão State Park region - TO.
Believing in the viability of the Araguaia River as a strategic source of cultural and socio-economic richness, and biodiversity, the Jaguar Conservation Fund (JCF) invited the Earthwatch Institute and IBAMA (Brazilian government agency for the environment) of the state of Goiás to form a partnership to develop the Araguaia Biodiversity Corridor Program - Araguaia Project - with the general objective to establish a long term management, conservation and monitoring program of the river. The project includes the entire extension of the Araguaia River and will be realized in three phases: I- Diagnosis and activity planning; II- Implementation of activities, and III- Monitoring of biological, landscape and socio-economic aspects. As of today, there have been six expeditions. The seventh scientific expedition, part of Phase I, will be carried out in August and include collection of data about the socio-economic profile, research about the freshwater dolphin, jaguar and a giant catfish known as piraíba. Effective conservation of a region requires strategies that combine knowledge of its biodiversity and the factors that threaten it, the identification of innovative and sustainable solutions for environmental problems, and establishing partnerships to implement actions and monitor implemented actions. To preserve the Araguaia River and promote it to the category of a Biodiversity Corridor, contributing to perpetuate its biological, economic and social importance - that is the challenge of this proposal. |
| Jaguars kill fisherman in the Pantanal
On
the 25th of June, Globo.com reported that in the evening of the
24th, a pair of jaguars had attacked and killed a 22-year-old fisherman
in the Pantanal of Mato Grosso state, near the town of Cáceres.
The young man had camped near the Paraguai River with his father,
who had left the camp to look for bait, while his son was sleeping.
When he came back, he saw two jaguars that had ripped open the tent
and were dragging out his son by his head. Unarmed, he was unable
to interfere. Only when other fishermen arrived, were they able
to drive the animals away, but by then, the young man was already
dead. |
Investigation of the body showed that he suffered cranio-encephalic trauma; the animals consumed parts of his face and neck. In an interview published on the website of TV Centro America, the biologist Rogério Cunha de Paula, coordinator of the National Program of Conflict Control between Predators and Human Population of the National Predator Center (CENAP) states that the riverine communities and the intensive tourism could have brought the animals closer to humans. According to de Paula, the animals are losing their fear of human beings, and he affirms that now a strategic plan has to be developed to avoid new attacks.
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Read the entire material at: Material 1 and Material 2 |
Jaguar attacking group af capybaras From less than 20m away, a group of fishermen filmed the moment a jaguar attacked a group of capybaras on the Banks of the Cabaçal River in the Pantanal of Mato Grosso state. Watch the video: http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=hRb1msovWf8 |
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| Photogenic jaguar in Emas National Park, central Brazil By Jaguar Conservation Fund Camera-traps
registered this jaguar in Emas National Park in May 2008. Rolling
on the ground, it almost seems to pose for the cameras. The animal
was identified as a female that had been registered in the study
area since 2006. |
This lucky shot demonstrates how occasionally, camera-traps may record behavior that is difficult to observe directly. In this case, scent put in front of the cameras may have induced the female's behavior. This attractant is used to slow passing animals down in order to obtain a full body picture. |
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"Our mission is to promote the conservation of the jaguar, its natural prey and habitat throughout the species geographical range, as well as its peaceful coexistence with man through research, management and conservation strategies." |
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Contact Information in Brazil: Leandro Silveira, President CP 193 - Mineiros - GO 75.830-000 - Brazil |
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