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Category: Uncategorized | Date: Mar 19 2008 | By: admin

Dear friends,

We have a and exciting blog about Jaguars that I want to draw attention to. Fernando Lima is a researcher from IPÊ – Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas. He works at “The Leap of the Cat – Ocelot Conservation in Pontal do Paranapanema” with Dr. Laury Cullen Jr., research coordinator for IPÊ. The project is integrated in a large conservation context promoted by IPÊ and more specifically in the Landscape Detectives Program Approach. This approach use jaguars and ocelots as “detectives” that tell us by their movements between fragments in the landscape where are important areas to promote corridors implementation and stepping stones to wildlife. They heard about the Wildlife Direct through their director Dr. Claudio Padua (a good friend of mine and one of my most admired conservation heroes) who recognized that their work would fit very well at the WildlifeDirect .

Last September Fernando and Laury started an expedition, funded by themselves, called “The Jaguar Corridor Expedition” during ten days in the sailboat Pasárgada along the Upper Paraná River. The original idea was to associate their passion by the earlier naturalists and explorers from the nineteenth century and the necessity of evaluate status, threats, conservation opportunities and potential partnerships along this important corridor of biodiversity. The expedition had more impact that they could expect and was covered in regional and national media.

A website “O Eco” (The Eco), one of the most respectable website about environment in Brazil gave them the opportunity to publish daily reports of the expedition and this started a relationship between researchers and the general public. The diary illustrates the scientific the funny funny and the dangerous moments of the adventure exploring the Jaguar Corridor.

For Portuguese readers, these days reports are available here.

We are very excited and honored that the Jaguar detectives have joined the WildlifeDirect family and we hope you visit and support their work.

Filming Wild is a blog about efforts to educate African children through environmental films. This new blog features the work of The African Environmental Film Foundation (AEFF). Tanya Trevor Saunders, and husband Ian Saunders work work for AEFF which makes educational films about environmental and conservation issues, for the people of Africa, in their own languages, for free distribution across the continent. Funds raised on their blog will contribute to the distribution of the films to schools and community centers around Africa.

Paula

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