Alan Rabinowtiz is regarded as the foremost Jaguar Scientist in the World today. Alan leads the charge
for protecting the Jaguar throughout it's most modern day range(Mexico to Patagonia) and forging rewilding
corridors as well as core preserves for The Americas largest and most majestic Cat. He has come out
against extending that protection into the USA on the basis that El Tigre has been absent from our landscape
for the last 150 years and that it would be to expensive to resurrect critical habitat for "The Jag"...Click and
read this laymans passionate "point/counterpoint" and rebuttal.
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I ask the US Fish & Wildlife Service to work to restore the jaguar within its former range in the U.S. There are two reasons for this: first, our nation's commitment to recover our endangered wildlife; and second, the need to rebuild jaguar numbers and distribution on the US side of the border to achieve recovery of the northernmost jaguar population in the world, now only a small, struggling population in Sonora, Mexico. Mexico cannot recover the Northern Jaguar Population it alone. My wife and I, both professional wildlife biologists, provide further details at:
http://jaguarhabitatusa.wordpress.com/sciencepolic/campaign-biologists-spell-out-jaguar-habitat-needs/
Rabinowitz appears to argue that the U.S. cannot support the jaguar. The evidence suggests otherwise. The primary reason that jaguars no longer occur in the US is quite simple: they were killed off (e.g., a dozen jaguars have been killed in my life time in my home state of Arizona). What doesn't Rabinowitz understand about that?
Tony Povilitis, PhD
http://jaguarhabitatusa.wordpress.com
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