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Payan, E.; Carbone, C.; Homewood, K.; Paemelaere, E.; Quigley, H.; Durant, S.M.
Where will jaguars roam? The importance of survival in unprotected lands
2013 Book Chapter
As large predators, jaguar (_Panthera onca_) require vast expanses of well conserved land, abundant prey and few people. This study reviews three different ecological studies on jaguars living in unprotected lands. The first study focuses on Colombian jaguars living with indigenous peoples in Amazonia, while the second study examines a Colombian jaguar population living in cattle ranches persecuted for depredation. The third study concerns jaguars surviving in the Rupununi savannahs of Guyana, where cattle ranching is withering and tourism is gaining ground. All examples have five main common factors that enable jaguars to survive in unprotected lands: low human density, poor soils, inaccessibility, wild prey availability and closeness to large protected areas (>3,000 km2). We propose that the long-term conservation of jaguars will depend on conserving populations in unprotected lands as a complement to protected areas.
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