Sharing Jaguar Conservation Practices in America to Support Tiger Conservation in China

2020-07-29

In order to support the development of China’s Northeast Tiger and Leopard National Park, as well as share experience and lessons on big cats conservation and building a national park, NRDC released the “Jaguar Conservation Across Its Range” report on International Tiger Day.  The Jaguar is the most important and iconic species across large swaths of the American continent. However, human impact on the species has reduced its original distribution to around 50 percent, including its total extinction in Uruguay and El Salvador. The practices and lessons learned from range countries, in habitat protection and connectivity, balancing of protection and development, human and jaguar conflict management and international conservation cooperation, are worth sharing with countries who are facing similar challenges to tailor-make their own big cats conservation and national park management strategies. The report studied 5 cases to discuss the role that protected-areas and national parks play in protecting jaguars. The report also assessed the effectiveness of cross-border conservation cooperation, eco-tourism, ecological compensation schemes, community engagement, and large-scale landscape protection plans, highlighting some effective conservation measures.  

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