Jaguars, Panthers & Pumas : Brazil

What?

This expedition will initiate the first-ever conservation project of Atlantic forest jaguar and puma populations and their prey in unstudied rainforest. The Hilaire/Lange National Park study site consists of densely forested mountain ranges and mangrove lowlands reaching the Atlantic ocean. It harbors one of the few jaguar populations surviving in broad-leaved Atlantic rainforest. Data collected by the expedition will form the basis for the management and protection of jaguars and pumas and their habitats within a highly threatened ecosystem.

When?

This research project will take place May 9th-21st, 2010.

Why?

It is vital that this southernmost population of jaguars in the broad-leaved Atlantic rainforest is protected, as it contains the source population from which jaguar numbers could be re-established. 

Where?

The study area is situated on the edge of the Saint-Hilaire/Lange National Park in southern Brazil, comprising 25,000 hectares of protected Atlantic forest and named after the French naturalist Saint Hilaire, and the Brazilian environmentalist Roberto Ribas Lange.