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The Jaguar Corridor
This map shows the Jaguar Corridor. Sustaining populations of Jaguars are found in Conservation Units, while Corridors are used by Jaguars to travel between Units to find mates and prey. Jaguars in Mexico are the same species as Jaguars in Argentina.
The Jaguar Corridor, which extends from Mexico to Argentina, represents critical biologically diverse regions of Latin America.
Jaguar presence implies intact habitat and healthy ecosystems. However, Jaguars have lost almost 50% of their range due to agricultural expansion and infrastructure (roads) and other development encroaching into or decimating Units and Corridors. When the connections between Units are lost, Jaguar populations that live in Units decline leading to local extinctions.
Jaguars throughout Latin America are related to each other, whether in Mexico, Argentina, or swimming across the Panama Canal. The ability to travel through corridors helps jaguars maintain genetic diversity within the species, and thus, a healthy vigorous population range wide.
Core areas and corridors have historically represented regions or landscapes with high biological diversity and continue to do so to this day. Throughout their range, jaguars move through a mosaic of protected areas, productive forests, cattle ranches, private lands, and farms in search of prey and potential mates.
However, due to poorly planned agricultural development, intentional fire-setting to clear land for cattle and crops, highway construction, population fragmentation, poaching of prey, direct killing, cat-cattle conflict, and the compounding impacts of these factors, the jaguar has lost nearly 50% of its historical range in the Americas.
