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Oct 7, 20204 min read

Pumas and Wildfires- Habitat Loss

Wildfires are an increasing threat to pumas and the loss of their habitat, especially in California. Wildfires are a natural occurrence...

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Oct 6, 20203 min read

Puma Habitat Loss

Several puma organizations agree that habitat loss is the biggest threat facing pumas, in the United States. California is 155,959 square...

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Oct 5, 20203 min read

Puma General Information

Pumas, cougar, panther, or mountain lion, all refer to the same species, Puma concolor (Hansen, 1992). This cat has the most names out of...

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Oct 4, 20201 min read

International and World Jaguar Day

Some claim International Jaguar Day is November 29th, while others say World Jaguar Day is April 10th or June 11th (IJD, 2020; SPECIES...

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Oct 3, 20202 min read

Jaguar Community Science

Community science, or citizen science, is an aspect of hands-on research that non-scientists can participate in. For this website we like...

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Oct 2, 20202 min read

Jaguar Prey Loss

Jaguars have been impacted by a reduction in their natural prey items. Their prey items are being over hunted (Panthera Jaguar, 2020)....

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Oct 1, 20203 min read

Jaguar Poaching

Poaching is an increasing threat to jaguars. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s the jaguar was heavily poached for their furs (Panthera...

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Sep 30, 20204 min read

Jaguars and Wildfires- Habitat Loss

Wildfires are a major threat to jaguars today and aids in even more habitat loss. By August of 2019 there were estimated to be around...

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Sep 29, 20203 min read

Jaguar Habitat Loss

Jaguars used to roam from the southern western United States all the way down to almost the tip of Argentina. They have been eradicated...

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Sep 28, 20202 min read

General Information on Jaguars

The jaguar is the largest cat in the western hemisphere (Panthera Jaguar, 2020). Jaguars are the third largest cat in the world, after...

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Sep 27, 20201 min read

International Leopard Day

Celebrate International Leopard Day every May 3rd! Leopards belong in the wild, but you can symbolically adopt one through the World...

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Sep 26, 20203 min read

San Diego Zoo Global's Leopard Project

San Diego Zoo Global (SDZG) has a research team, within their population sustainability department, that focuses on conserving leopards...

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Sep 25, 20203 min read

Leopard Prey Loss

Leopards are the most adaptable and widely distributed cat species which helps them survive anywhere from tall grasses, dense or sparse...

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Sep 24, 20202 min read

Leopard Poaching

The biggest threat in terms of killing leopards are retaliatory killings, for being accused of predation on livestock (Khorozyan et. al,...

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Sep 23, 20203 min read

Leopard Habitat Loss

Outside of the general anthropogenic threat, habitat loss is the biggest threat to leopards. Leopards have the largest range of all the...

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Sep 22, 20202 min read

Leopard Anthropogenic Threats

Humans and large carnivores have a long and complex history (Ghosal, 2018). The biggest threat to leopards are anthropogenic, meaning it...

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Sep 21, 20203 min read

General Information on Leopards

Leopards are the third largest cat in the world. The leopard, or Panthera pardus, is known as the most elusive of all the big cats (AWF...

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Sep 20, 20201 min read

World Lion Day

World Lion Day is celebrated on August 10th. Dereck and Beverly Joubert are National Geographic Explorers who take pictures and film...

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Sep 19, 20202 min read

Human- Lion Coexistence

If nothing is done to help lions, they could be extinct by 2050 (AWF King of the Jungle, 2020). The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) is...

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Sep 18, 20203 min read

Illegal Lion Trade

The illegal wildlife trade affects lions in multiple ways. Under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of wild...

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