By beth duncan | Program Manager
Global Big Cat Alliance
Jaguars Continue Guiding Our Work
Summer 2017 Report
Dear Donors,
Thank you so much to each of you who have so generously supported our work with the Global Alliance for Big Cat Conservation, work which is guided by the ancestors and the spirit of these big cats. We are so close to reaching our goal to support the Big Cats thanks to you!
This quarter, we continued our work in supporting the Jaguar through our work the Yawanawans, one of the last remaining intact indigenous communities in Brazil. After WISN sent an international anti-poaching and security expert down to the Brazilian rainforest last Spring (reported on in our Spring 2017 report), we worked side by side with the Yawanwans to develop a grant proposal/ plan that will be submitted to large scale international donors (attached).
Poaching and land encroachment remains the biggest threat to Jaguars in the region. Based on the recommendations of this international security expert, WISN was able to assist the Yawanawan community with funds to construct a command post for their anti-poaching efforts. The Yawanawans will also purchase anti-poaching supplies such as boats and radios, and will undergo anti-poaching training that will be led by the same international security expert. This is anticipated to take place in January or February of 2018.
Strength in Numbers
We also conducted meetings with a conservation organization based in Mexico City, which has purchased a large swath of land in the North of Mexico for Jaguar conservation. They are expanding their lands to include lands West of Mexico City. What they lack in cultural understanding of the indigenous communities that share their traditional lands with the Jaguars, they make up for in their scientific and conservation expertise. We will be linking up this organization with the Yawanawans at a meeting in January to strengthen the Big Cat Alliance network for Jaguar conservation. Their aim is to ultimately create a corridor of protection that extends from the rainforests of Brazil through Central America and up to North America. We believe that together, they can achieve this goal.
And together, with you, we can do all that we can to help them in these efforts.
Thank you again, Donors, for your continued support with this project.
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