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For decades, WCS has worked to protect jaguars, to ensure these big cats continue to roam the savannas, grasslands, and rainforests of the Americas. WCS’s model to save them is based on three core elements: securing large, well-protected areas as inviolate refuges for jaguars and their prey; ensuring connectivity between those areas; and cooperating with communities living across these landscapes to help meet their needs while also improving things for jaguars and other wildlife.

• WCS protects jaguars in 13 countries.
• WCS safeguards jaguars across a land area roughly the size of California.
• WCS has been working at these sites for years and, in some cases, decades.
• WCS uses a holistic approach, not only protecting jaguars where they are but also working to bring them home to their former range.
• WCS is building out an ambitious landscape-scale program in the Southwest Borderlands and Northern Mexico that seeks to lay the foundation for rewilding the endangered and emblematic jaguar and protecting, reconnecting, and restoring the waterways, forest, and grassland habitats required to sustain and nurture these once abundant icons of the southwest.
• Based on 2020 research, jaguar populations are growing steadily at WCS sites, averaging a 6.1% increase per year.

—Joe Walston, WCS Executive Vice President for Global Conservation