The first wild birth of jaguars has been documented after the species went locally extinct in Northeast Argentina’s Corrientes Province 70 years ago, the product of two jaguars from Rewilding Argentina's first-of-a-kind rewilding program. After the recent release of...
Macaws Released in Wildfire-Sticken Wetlands
Following massive wildfires that devastated the Argentine province of Corrientes in early 2022, five red-and-green macaws–a species extinct until recently in Argentina–join a founding population of released macaws that can help regenerate native forest in the Iberá...
Jaquars Roam Free in Argentina Ibera Wetlands for the First Time in 70 Years
Argentina has brought jaguars back to the vast Iberá wetlands, seventy years after the species was driven to local extinction through hunting and habitat loss. An adult jaguar (Panthera onca) and her two captive-born cubs have been released into the wild, the first in...
Mating Wild and Captive Jaguars to Save the Species
Nov 11, 2020 --IMPENETRABLE NATIONAL PARK, ARG On October 17, 2020, an unlikely romance was underway in the Gran Chaco. A wild jaguar, the first discovered in Impenetrable National Park, entered the pen of a captive jaguar with the promise of mating. Their encounter...