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Jaguar Decision Delayed
America’s biggest cat will have to wait another year for habitat protections, federal wildlife officials said in a letter last month. Earlier this year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service settled...
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On Photography: The Story Behind the Photo
Click the image above to see the full-sized version. One of the most hauntingly beautiful wildlife photographs that I have ever seen graces the Species Spotlight section of the latest issue of...
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Rare Jaguar Spotted in Arizona
A hunter spotted a jaguar like this one in Arizona for the first time in almost three years. Arizona wildlife officials confirmed that the big cat a hunter had cornered in a tree last weekend was an...
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Wildlife Advocates Encouraged by Southern Arizona Jaguar Sighting
TUCSON, Ariz. – Wildlife advocates say the pre-Thanksgiving sighting of an adult male jaguar in southern Arizona is an encouraging sign of the recovery of a species that once roamed as far north as the...
View Article175 Foot Jaguar Marches Up Tucson’s A Mountain
Well, it wasn’t a real jaguar but it was the 175 foot jaguar tapestry that Defenders of Wildlife, our supporters, and volunteers from across the nation helped to create and carry up Sentinel Peak...
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Big Cat Makes A Comeback!
Scotty Johnson, Senior Outreach Representative Jaguars. Mention the word to people who know nothing about endangered wildlife? They imagine a tuxedoed Richard Branson, or James Bond speeding round a...
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TrekWest – A Coalition’s Campaign for Connectivity
Matt Clark, Southwest Representative Patagonia Mountains – rich habitat for wildlife in the southwest ©Matt Clark If you are anything like me, you might get to feeling pessimistic sometimes because of...
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The Big Picture, In Stunning Detail: How new imaging technology aids wildlife...
There’s a brave new world of image-capturing technologies out there, and conservationists like Defenders’ Senior Southwest Representative Craig Miller are using them to enhance the efficacy of field...
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There’s a new kitten in town: Baby Ocelot brings hope to struggling...
The baby ocelot recently photographed by remote trail cameras on the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas is cause for celebration. The kitten is estimated to be...
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Saving the Sacred Santa Ritas
The Rosemont Mine project would trash the waters of one of the world’s most diverse regions South of Tucson and north of the Mexican border, in one of Arizona’s most biodiverse regions, is the Nogales...
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Saving Wildlife North and South of the Border
“South of the border, down Mexico way…” American cultural icons like Patsy Cline and Georgia O’Keefe were well attuned to the unique and even mystical allure of the US southwest and the region’s...
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Not So Sunny in Patagonia
The U.S. Forest Service recently gave the green light to the “Sunnyside ”mineral exploratory drilling project — a plan to drill 18 bore holes at six sites in the Patagonia Mountains in hopes of finding...
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Reflecting on 2014
We’ve been hard at work this year, and we have some incredible accomplishments to report as a result. Thank you so much for your dedication and support, which made all these achievements possible....
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Wildlife Moms
Being a good mother isn’t always easy in the world of wildlife. With all the elements to overcome in the wild – finding enough food, fending off predators – it’s hard enough without a fragile new...
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Corridors for Jaguars
Picture a sleek jaguar tracking a deer through the forest, camouflaged by large spots on its coat (called rosettes) that mimic the dappled sunlight streaming through the trees. Native to North and...
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Court ruling makes things look brighter in the Mountain Empire
This week we got great news for wildlife in the Mountain Empire in southern Arizona. The federal district court in Tucson put the brakes on a damaging exploratory drilling project in the Coronado...
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The Long-awaited Return
With one solitary jaguar back in the U.S., and plans in the works to move its conservation forward, could we soon see a real return of this long-absent native species? Imagine a little known region of...
View ArticleArizona’s Rosemont Mine Threatens Only U.S. Jaguar
What happens when a Canadian mining company wants to dig a huge open-pit copper mine on U.S. public land, right where the only jaguar in the U.S. lives? The government agency charged with protecting...
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