JAGUARS GO FROM ZERO TO 50: A REWILDING MILESTONE AND THE FIRST-EVER RECORDED VISITOR SIGHTING For the first time, visitors to Iberá National Park have been able to observe and document a wild jaguar roaming free in the 2-million-acre park. While Rewilding Argentina’s...
In Argentina’s Monte León National Park, the recovery of pumas, the top terrestrial predator, has created surprising behavior that transforms our understanding of the species' social structure. The pumas preying on Magellanic penguins along the Patagonian coast show a...
An unlikely but crucial return: guanacos come back to El Impenetrable after 110 years A group of guanacos, South America’s largest wild camelid, have been set free in Argentina’s El Impenetrable National Park in the Gran Chaco to aid in the recovery of one of the...
The Jaguar Rivers Initiative is the first multi-country effort to create a massive wildlife corridor in the heart of South America. Uniting successful grassroots nonprofits in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay, the initiative will restore ecosystems, bring back...
Local nature guides have documented the presence of a wild jaguar cub on the banks of the Bermejo River in El Impenetrable National Park. It’s the first offspring of the species seen in decades in the Argentine Chaco. The cub was sighted with its mother Nalá, one of...
The release of a family of giant river otters marks a rewilding milestone in Argentina, where the last breeding population was sighted 40 years ago. The endeavor to bring back the apex freshwater predator from national extinction has been made possible by the...
Argentina is celebrating the creation of Patagonia Azul Provincial Park, an immense coastal-marine area of 729,000 acres, roughly the size of Yosemite National Park in the US. Chubut province’s first marine provincial park, Patagonia Azul will provide crucial...
Rewilding Argentina has set free the first wild female jaguar translocated for conservation purposes in El Gran Chaco ecosystem in Argentina, where a small, all-male wild population has been dwindling. The action is a genetic lifeline to a species that was destined...
In the first international translocation of wild species for release in the Southern Cone, Rewilding Argentina and Rewilding Chile, offspring organizations of Tompkins Conservation, have brought 15 Darwin’s rheas across the Andes from Patagonia Park, Argentina to...
A momentous first in Argentina! (Photographs by Sebastián Navajas) Miní, a wild jaguar born in the Ibera wetlands, thanks to releases from our offspring organization Rewilding Argentina, was translocated to El Impenetrable National Park, where she will be released in...