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Moraes jr, E.A.
The status of the jaguar in the Cerrado
2012 Cat News (Special Issue 5): 25-28
The extent of occurence of jaguars _Panthera onca _in the Cerrado was estimated to be 157,500 km2 and we identified 11 jaguar subpopulations in the biome by using jaguar presence points. Using data from several studies jaguar density was estimated at 0.67 mature individuals per 100 km2 for all areas in the Brazilian Cerrado. A population of 323 adult jaguars is estimated to live throughout the biome. The Cerrado subpopulation is declining throughout the biome at an unknown rate. Jaguars have already disappeared from the areas where habitat has been converted. About half of the 2 million square kilometres of the original Cerrado were transformed into planted pastures, annual crops and other land use forms over the past 50 years. Principal jaguar threats are habitat loss, population declines, loss of prey base, jaguar killing, agribusiness, mining, roadkills and hydroelectric power.
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