MONITORING THE ENDANGERED JAGUAR IN MEXICO

Nature and Culture technicians are recording species’ behavior in the dry forest

This year, our Mexico team joined the National Census of the Jaguar and its prey (CENJAGUAR), an initiative to determine the status and size of the Jaguar population in Mexico.

We focused our monitoring efforts on detecting jaguar mobility within our Mosaic Sierra - Mar, installing 13 camera trap stations in collaboration with four very knowledgeable park rangers in the region. On this journey, we spotted tracks, prey remains, scratches on trees and resting grounds that confirmed the presence of jaguars, especially in areas near water.

While we hope to spot the elusive jaguar, we are also eager to catch images of other mammal species, birds, or reptiles to learn more about all the species that live in the area. Typically, monitoring stations only stay up for around 5 months, but we are expecting to maintain these stations year-round. Our team will analyze species’ behavior in response to weather conditions and gain a better understanding of how climate change is affecting their habitat.

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