From Argentina to Arizona, jaguars are clawing their way back. At these bookends of the species’ range, this elusive predator is critically endangered – wiped out in some places, barely hanging on in others. Yet despite habitat loss, poaching, and climate change, jaguar populations have the potential to rebound, offering hope that extinction isn’t the end of their story.

Rewilding Argentina has spearheaded one of the most ambitious wildlife recovery efforts in the world. In Iberá, where jaguars had been absent for 70 years, they have recovered a population from zero to 35 individuals in just four years. In the Gran Chaco, they reintroduced three females in the last year at El Impenetrable to supplement a small number of wild males. Their success is a rallying cry for jaguar conservation across the Americas – including in the rugged borderlands of Arizona and Sonora, where pockets of these big cats still roam.

Join Sebastián Di Martino, conservation director of Rewilding Argentina and one of the architects of their jaguar breeding and reintroduction program, as he shares why it is important to bring back jaguars, how they did it in Argentina, and what opportunities he sees for jaguar recovery in northern Mexico and the southwestern United States.

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