Protection Status
Protection Status: CITES Appendix I
National Legislation:
Fully protected over much of its range
Hunting Prohibited:
Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay,
Suriname, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela
Hunting restricted to “problem animals”:
Brazil, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru
Trophy hunting permitted:
Bolivia
No legal protection:
Ecuador, Guyana (Swank and Teer 1987, Fuller et al. 1987, Anon. 1989d)
Occurrence in Protected Areas:
Quigley and Crawshaw (1992) estimated that at least 3,200
km2 of protected habitat would be required to
support a minimum population of 50 jaguars in the Pantanal region. Protected areas over 3,000
km2 in size are marked with a square in
Figure 3; other smaller but strategically located
areas known to contain jaguar are also shown. Isolated remnant populations are scattered
through the fragmented Atlantic coastal forests of south-eastern Brazil, located in reserves
(IUCN 1982) and also in unprotected areas, including the Serra de Paranapiacaba
Mountains south-west of Sao Paulo (J. Guix in litt. 1993)
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