Endangered Jaguars

Frida Espinoza & Gyanie Sanchez

P.2 AP Biology
Project Purpose
The Human Impact
❏ Humans impact the environment by the use of natural resources, and
how they take care of the environment-negative effects can include
pollution or climate change

“Call to Action”
❏ Taking care of the environment is going to end up benefiting us in the
long run as we are the people who live in it

The Importance of Knowing

❏ Educating the public is necessary as people need to be aware of their
environment in order to preserve the beauty of it.
The Jaguar
Outstanding Characteristics
The Basics
● strongest jaw structure
Scientific Name of Animal: Panthera
● they have rings on their body
Onca
● have the shortest tail
Animal Group: Felidae
● short legs, & a rounder head
● Color: black & orange
● females are 10 to 20% shorter
● Size Range: 3.9-6.4 ft.
● have a condition called melanism that
● Weight Range: 123–212 lbs.
can make a jaguar’s coat come out
Interesting Facts completely black
● there are albino panthers, but they are
● jaguars tend to be poached to asian
rare.
countries-China
● decline of around 25% in the past 21
years
● considered the largest cats in the
Americas-3rd largest cat
Its Lifestyle
Animal Habitat Animal Appetite

➢ Rainforests ➢ Deer
➢ seasonally flooded wetlands ➢ Peccary
➢ dry grassland terrains ➢ Crocodiles
➢ Snakes
★ They prefer to live by rivers, ➢ Monkeys
swamps, and in denser rainforests ➢ Sloths
➢ Tapirs
➢ Turtles
➢ Eggs
➢ Frogs
➢ Fish

★ & anything else they can catch

Our country: Mexico

Interesting Facts Jaguars Here

➔ Mexico is the 14th largest & 11th most
populated country. ➔ Jaguars are mainly found in the
➔ Mexico has one of the seven wonders of the conservation at Yucatan, Mexico
world: Chichen-Itza
➔ It has 68 official languages.
➔ It is the largest silver producer and largest beer
exporter.
➔ The mexican capital sinks 3ft each year.
➔ It’s the second most happiest country in the
world.
The Downside
Why is the animal endangered ?
❖ loss of habitat
❖ killed due to them eating livestock/ human
benefit
❖ competition with other animals, and humans for
food

How many animals are

estimated to be alive in
the world?
❖ about 64,000 are left in the wild
Data Collection*
Mexico: 9,000 Ecuador: 9,000

Bolivia: 6,000 Columbia: 8,000

Peru: 8,000 Costa Rica: 4,000

Brazil: 13,000 Argentina: 2,000

Venezuela: 8,000 Honduras: 1,000

*approximate #s not completely accurate

Efforts taken by society

Conservations
★ Binational conservation have been successful in
protecting a small population of 120 in Sonora,
Mexico
○ It has been working, but this act has only
been beneficial for 8% of the population

Donations
★ The WWF organization set up an Adopt a Jaguar
donation
○ It helps out as the money goes to the
conservations, but it has not been
efficient because it doesn’t ensure that
they will not be hunted
Our Solution ■ We feel that raising money and developing
animal conservations are a great idea, but it
does do much for the ones in the wild. Our
idea is to develop systems of protection
throughout regions that are known to be
inhabited by jaguars; this way their lifestyle
won’t be changed and they can be safe. There
will be people tracking and observing their
activity at all times and ensuring there are no
threats.
How this project affected us
Change in Perspective
◆ This project has shown how little
we care for our nature and
environment & how blind we are
towards these topics
◆ In the future, we would choose to
see a more participative
community, everybody playing a
part to live in a better place
SLOs
◆ We investigated the world by
researching the different ways
countries take care of their
environments as well as learning
about the country itself.
◆ We recognized and weighed
perspectives as we saw how people’s
values play a part in their actions
and how it can affect an environment
as a whole.
 Works Cited
○ “25 Interesting Facts About Mexico.” Swedish Nomad, 2 Sept. 2018, www.swedishnomad.com/interesting-facts-
about-mexico/

○ What Is Technology, www.edu.pe.ca/southernkings/jaguar.htm

○ “Basic Facts About Jaguars.” Defenders of Wildlife, 19 Sept. 2016, defenders.org/jaguar/basic-facts.

○ “Census Finds Mexico's Jaguar Population up 20% to 4,800.” Mexico News Daily, 16 June 2018,
mexiconewsdaily.com/news/jaguar-population-up/.

○ Flournoy, Blake. “Why Are Jaguars Endangered Animals?” Sciencing.com, Sciencing, 25 July 2018,
sciencing.com/jaguars-endangered-animals-8187721.html.

○ “Jaguar Plush.” WWF, World Wildlife Fund, gifts.worldwildlife.org/gift-center/gifts/Species-

Adoptions/Jaguar?sc=AWY1800OQ18352A01736RX&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI1p34gLaC3wIVgiCtBh11DQOaEAAYASAAE
gLnQ_D_BwE.

○ “Jaguar.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 25 Nov. 2018, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar.

“For the love of jaguars”