Using the results from the Mexico Workshop, the Jaguar Conservation Program continues to develop its suite of conservation projects in high-priority sites.

The program is currently working on methodologies for surveying and monitoring jaguar populations, their prey, and their habitat. A field depredation manual and a booklet on cattle husbandry techniques were recently completed and used as tools at our first rancher workshop meeting held in the Pantanal in Brazil in May 2001. In addition, field health and genetics manuals  have been developed to standardize sample collection and field procedures.

The Jaguar Conservation Program is currently establishing a monitoring program in Belize, landscape projects in Ecuador, Bolivia, and the Pantanal, and is beginning to conduct surveys in areas where the status of jaguars is unknown. We have also established a small grants program to provide support to jaguar research and conservation projects. Download Jaguar Conservation Small Grants Program application here.

WCS has contributed to jaguar-related research in the following countries:

Argentina:

Jaguars in dry Chaco Argentine: an attempt for conservation of the species. (2005-present)
Lara Denapole

Jaguar densities in the Atlantic Forest of Argentina: its relationship with prey availability, hunting pressure, and the presence of pumas. (2004-present)
Agustin Javier Paviolo

Jaguar-livestock conflict: Comparing livestock management with mortality by predation and production. (2003-2004)
Karina Schiaffino

Belize:

Determining effective sampling area of camera trapping surveys to estimate jaguar densities in Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary. (2006-present)
Ferdie Yau

Environmental education to promote jaguar conservation in Belize. (2005-present)
Sharon Matola

Examining jaguar-livestock conflict in the Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary. 
(2003-2005)
Becci Foster

Exploring human-jaguar conflict in Belize: Towards a possible model for Central America.
(2002-2005)
Steve Brechin and Jesse Buff

Jaguar and prey monitoring in western Belize. (2001-2003)
Marcella Kelly

Jaguar track measurements: Investigation of a potential survey method. (2001-2003)Carolyn Miller

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Monitoring jaguars in the Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary. (2000-present)                 
Scott Silver and Linde Ostro

Bolivia:

Jaguar monitoring in Madidi National Park. (2004-present)
Rob Wallace

Jaguar Monitoring in Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco National Park. (2003-2005)
Andrew Noss and Damian Rumiz              

Brazil:

Livestock depredation by jaguars and pumas in southern Pantanal: Examination of predisposing factors and alternative control measures. (2000-2004) 
Sandra Cavalcanti

Rancher Outreach Project programs in the Pantanal. (2002-2005)
Almira Hoogesteyn

Estimating jaguar abundance using camera trapping and capture-recapture methods in the Parque Estadual do Rio Doce, the largest Atlantic Forest fragment in Minas Gerais.
(2004-present)
Leonardo Viana

Jaguar reconnaissance survey in Mamiraua and Amana Sustainable Development Reserves. (July-August 1999)
Cheryl Chetkiewicz and Gleb Raygorodetsky

Colombia:

Jaguar abundance and conservation in hunted versus unhunted sites in Colombian Amazonia. (2006-present)
Esteban Payan

Jaguar conservation in the Colombian Llanos: Presence, local perceptions and the livestock conflict. (2005-present)
Esteban Payan

Costa Rica:

Conservation assessment of jaguar and theur prey in the Talamanca Mountains, Costa Rica. (2005-present)
Jan Schipper

Jaguar status in Santa Rosas National Park, Costa Rica. (2005-present)
Luis Alvarado Alfaro

Effectiveness of the Cacao-Rincon Biological Corridor for jaguars, Guanacaste Conservation Area. (2005-present)
Ronit Amit

Behavioral study of jaguar depredation on marine sea turtles in Tortuguero National Park. (2003-2004)
Magally Alvarez

Ecology and conservation of Costa Rican white-lipped peccaries and jaguars.
(2000-present)
Eduardo Carillo

Guatemala:

Impacts of jaguars and pumas on livestock and domestic animals in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Peten, Guatemala. (2005-present)
Jose Soto

Comparative study of relative abundance of jaguar prey and game species between two habitats in Sierra Lacandon National Park. (2002-2003)
Jose Soto

Impacts of subsistence hunting on jaguar and puma in the Maya Biosphere Reserve. (2001-2003)
Anthony Novack

Honduras:

Rapid field assessment of jaguar status: La Mosquita, Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve. (2002)
Jeff Muntifering

Mexico:

Distribution and present status of the jaguar in San Luis Potosi. (2006-present)
Octavio Rosas Rosas

Jaguar abundance and habitat association in Queretaro, Mexico. (2005-present)
Carlos Lopez Gonzalez

Jaguar distribution and conservation status in Tabasco, Western Campeche and Northern Chiapas. (2005-present)
Mircea G. Hidalgo-Mihart

Conservation of jaguars in NE Sonora. (2000-2005)
Octavio Rosas Rosas

Mexico/U.S.:

Borderlands jaguar detecion project. (2001-present)
Jack Childs

Nicaragua:

The status and conservation of the jaguar and a characterization of jaguar hunting in the Indio Maiz Biological Reserve. (2003-2004)
Claudia Susan Gomez-Fuentes

Panama:

The status of jaguars in Darien National Park, Panama. (2004-present)
Ricardo Moreno

Peru:

Jaguar population abundance and density estimates using camera traps in a tropical rain forest of southeastern Peru. (2006-present)
Alicia Kuroiwa

Venezuela:

Registro de Informacion Jaguarina. (2005-present)
Antonio J. Gonzalez-Fernandez

Private refuge for wild jaguars in El Baul region, Cojedes State, Venezuela. (2002-2004)
Melva Olmos and Antonio J. Gonzalez-Fernandez