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The largest cat in the Americas is classified as "near threatened" according to the Red List of Threatened Species of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). We tell you about the efforts in the conservation of the jaguar.
In Colombia, a successful jaguar conservation program has a whiff of coffee In the first such initiative in Colombia, and one of the first in South America, just over 93,500 hectares (231,000 acres) have been prioritized for jaguar conservation through a zoning plan. Following a rise in conflicts between humans and the big cats in Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in 2013, a management plan was put in place and priority areas for jaguar conservation were recognized by local authorities. Coffee growers, whose farms overlap onto jaguar habitat, were also engaged in conservation through a certificati...