The Last Remaining Jaguar

The Last Remaining Jaguar: The return of Arizona's largest predator.
A film made, produced and edited by Anna Gniwotta, Elena Kortmann, Andrea Polanco and Filip Raketic. Student film project with Arizona State University, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and the School of Sustainability.
We produced this film as part of a sustainability documentary class, after finding out and being surprised by the presence of jaguars in Arizona. We hoped to throw a spotlight on the history of jaguars here, how they have been returning, and their importance to ecosystems. By speaking with many wildlife, conservation, and jaguar experts, we wanted to find out what could be done about this and how we could support the jaguar's return to the USA. We hope you engage with and enjoy this film, and become involved in helping endangered species and especially top predators to be welcomed back into the landscapes they once inhabited and belong in.
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Credits
Produced, filmed, and edited by:
Anna Gniwotta
Elena Kortmann
Andrea Polanco
Filip Raketic
Featuring:
Dr. Aletris Neils
Dr. Rob Peters
Kate Scott
Diana Hadley
Dr. Jan Schipper
Marit Alanen
Chris Bugbee
Special Thanks to:
Tony Heath
Marlene Bruch
Linda Hardwick
Phoenix Zoo
US Fish and Wildlife Service
Mission Garden Tucson
Michael Robinson
Alejandro Ganesh Marin Mendez
Art Smith
Aaron Lien
Alejandro Carrillo
Sadie Hadley
and Peter Byck & Nicholas Serpa
Graphics:
Marlene Bruch
Music:
freesound.org/people/TRP/soun...
freesound.org/people/helloIJu...
freesound.org/people/klankbee...
pixabay.com/fr/sound-effects/...
tunetank.com/tracks/3814-wond...
Additional Footage:
Russ McSpadden, Center for Biological Diversity:
Jaguar Named Sombra in Chiricahua Mountains in Arizona
Raw Footage Borderlands Wildlife
New Mexico Border Wall
Aletris Neils & Chris Bugbee, Conservation CATalysts:
Exclusive video of El Jefe Americas Only Known Wild Jaguar by Conservation CATalyst.
Meet Mayke, Conservation CATalyst's Jaguar Conservation Dog.
Emily Burns, Sky Island Alliance:
White Tailed Deer 0111
Defenders of Wildlife:
Bringing Jaguars back to the US Southwest.
KZread:
BBC Earth: • Jaguar Orphan Released...
Ryan Olinger // Fork-Tailed Media: • Where Jaguars Roam
BritishPathe: • USA: Arizona: Giant ca...
IB Times TV: • Caught on Tape: Rare J...
News 4 Tucson KVOA TV: • VIDEO: Jaguar spotted ...
KGUN 9: • Possible jaguar or oce...
Fox 10 Phoenix: • Jaguar sighting along ...
PBS News Hour: • Group aims to reintrod...
KOB 4: • Conservationists make ...
KRQE: • Conservation biologist...
12 News: • Arizona Game and Fish ...
Animal Logic TV: • Jaguar: The True King ...
Safari Talk // KittyKat23UK: • Mating jaguars Porto J...
Stills:
Denver Public Library, Western History and Genealogy Department, Stokley Ligon Collection. Biological Survey trap warning sign on tree.
Warner Glenn - Eyes of Fire: Encounter with a Borderlands Jaguar
Wild Texas History - Texas Jaguar Kill, London Texas Jaguar, Scott Dubois, Mills County Jaguar, Texas. Vernon Bailey 1903.
Wildlife.org - Jaguar killed on Indian Reservation, Jim Sparks
Northern Jaguar Project/Naturalia - Corazón with a javelina kill in 2012.
Terry Penrod - September 28 1963, Terry Penrod with Jaguar he shot.
Organisations to Support:
Conservation CATalysts: www.conservationcatalyst.com/
Defenders of Wildlife: defenders.org/
Madrean Archipelago Wildlife Center: www.mawcenter.org/
Birdland Ranch: www.mawcenter.org/birdland-ra...
The Northern Jaguar Project, Mexico: www.northernjaguarproject.org/
ProCAT/Sierra to Sea Costa Rica: wildlifefriendly.org/tag/sierr...
Sky Island Alliance: skyislandalliance.org/
Phoenix Zoo Local Conservation: www.phoenixzoo.org/local-cons...
Mission Gardens Tucson: www.missiongarden.org/
Malpai Borderlands Group: www.malpaiborderlandsgroup.org/
Please support our friends Kate Scott and Tony Heath, their conservation work,
and ranch infrastructure developments by following the link below!
gofund.me/975d59bd
Copyright: (Gniwotta, Kortmann, Polanco & Raketic 2022)

Пікірлер: 69

  • @jeanklug2041
    @jeanklug2041 Жыл бұрын

    Wonderful article. I had always seen Jaguars in older American paintings and had felt that there may be a few left here. Thank you for your work and hopefully, in time we will once again see them thrive in the US.

  • @dirtpathart
    @dirtpathart2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for producing this and giving the Jaguars good PR. They really need it. I hope in the time my son becomes an adult, that jaguars will be reproducing again in the SW.

  • @annagniwotta1268

    @annagniwotta1268

    2 жыл бұрын

    We hope so too! Thanks so much for watching :)

  • @armandorodriguez5120
    @armandorodriguez51206 ай бұрын

    Back in 2008, I was fishing with a friend at Falcon Lake in south Texas. We were on our boat fishing about 30 feet from shore on the Mexican side of the lake. We were cruising along the shore with our trolling motor casting towards the bank and all of the sudden, we noticed what we believed was a mountain lion laying down in the thicket, we assumed it was a mountain lion because of the size of the head, we could only see its head and part of the neck. Upon looking closer, we noticed that it actually had spots. To say the least, we could not believe that it could be a jaguar so we tried getting closer (but not too closed, lol) when all of the sudden it just turned and went deep into the brush. We didn't get a chance to see it fully but to this day we still talk about it and still wonder that we might have actually seen a jaguar. I can't say with 100% certainty that indeed it was a jaguar but almost sure it was. What are the chances that it was a jaguar, unlikely but not too farfetched. There is a decent population in northeastern mexico about 200 miles south of the border, so I guess it is possible.

  • @vchavez75
    @vchavez75 Жыл бұрын

    Save the jaguar!!

  • @coganstrade7782
    @coganstrade77829 ай бұрын

    This is great work. El Jefe is back and running.

  • @naturewithgabe
    @naturewithgabe2 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic work. Very well done.

  • @dreswan1
    @dreswan1 Жыл бұрын

    Excellent!

  • @pablolocoyo
    @pablolocoyo Жыл бұрын

    En argentina si pudimos

  • @jeanklug2041
    @jeanklug2041 Жыл бұрын

    Wonderful article! I had always seen Jaguars in older American paintings and had felt that there may be a few left here in the US somewhere. Thank you for your work. Don't let up on the government. We need to get those females here. What a magnificent animal.

  • @aprilguyguyon9169
    @aprilguyguyon9169 Жыл бұрын

    You are proffesionals having the right knowledge to deal with the come back of jaguars make the gov't. pay attention & do their work.

  • @fernandobriseno8164
    @fernandobriseno8164 Жыл бұрын

    That's exciting, hopefully they try to reintroduce them back into the environment.

  • @shantha5437
    @shantha5437 Жыл бұрын

    Do you have healthy population in this part of the US , other than this one without going extinct of the species ? If not please introduce some to these areas so the population can come back...🙏🙏🙏. I am a leopard photographer and abserver in the island of Srilanka especially , in the Kumana national park in the south east of the country. And also a snow leopard sponsor and a donner. Keep it up your good work . Thanks. 👍 😘👏👏

  • @angelaeriksen4436
    @angelaeriksen4436 Жыл бұрын

    How I wish Female Jaguars could roam to Arizona!

  • @dennismoroney
    @dennismoroney2 жыл бұрын

    Fabulous documentary! Thanks so much for all of your work on this video. Thanks for seeking out so many of the experts to interview, and presenting the very real perspective on the “Wall of Hate” that has been destructed on our border with Mexico. One more symptom of an empire in decline….. Yes, we need to facilitate the recovery of Jaguars in our Southern Arizona and New Mexico ecosystems.

  • @annagniwotta1268

    @annagniwotta1268

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for watching! We definitely agree that the barriers to jaguars returning need to be removed.

  • @jacobjarisch4577

    @jacobjarisch4577

    9 ай бұрын

    Texas too

  • @ericfarnsworth4430
    @ericfarnsworth4430 Жыл бұрын

    Here in Appalachia country I've seen several black panthers. But all the dnr tell me I'm crazy there's no such thing apparently. Nothing more terrifying then going through the woods and looking up at a big cat in a tree. But theres no such thing remember... Thanks

  • @mlreynolds21

    @mlreynolds21

    8 ай бұрын

    I found this video, because I was listening to the “Bear Grease” podcast. There is a story on Werner Glen and catching a jaguar in NM. Anywho. The black panther topic is a reoccurring theme. I too have seen a black panther. And no one can tell me panthers aren’t melanated. Ha.

  • @leq6992

    @leq6992

    7 ай бұрын

    lol, I can assure you that you have not come across any wild melanistic jaguars and/or leopards in the Appalachians. Lay off the moonshine and - ideally - the inbreeding as well, bud.

  • @puapucuve6643
    @puapucuve6643 Жыл бұрын

    I bet jaguars could control the coyote population.

  • @jacobjarisch4577

    @jacobjarisch4577

    9 ай бұрын

    Ferrel hogs too!

  • @happybee7725
    @happybee7725 Жыл бұрын

    Very sad. Here in the UK we too wiped out all large predators like wolves bears etc. Now the wildlife is boring. The only naturally occurring cat is the Scottish wild cat. Which looks like a normal house cat and even it is on the verge of extinction due to habitat loss and the individuals that are left are breeding with feral domestic cats and now even the wild cats that are left are mostly hybrids. We humans really f*ck the natural world right up don’t we.

  • @petergambino2129

    @petergambino2129

    4 ай бұрын

    but so much of it is delicious!

  • @Jeffreeebowski
    @Jeffreeebowski Жыл бұрын

    Large black cats are frequently sighted throughout Texas and across the Southeast all the way to Florida. Is it really a stretch to believe jaguars could be in AZ but not in their more typical habitat of swampy and jungle-like territory?? Plenty of video of these sightings abound but the “experts” tell us these cats don’t exist. Well considering there’s never been a documented black cougar (wild or captive) and these large black cats have only been seen in the south (AZ to FL), that tells me that these must be jaguars and there is absolutely a thriving population of them in the southern U.S. These cats were never fully eradicated and the “experts” simply don’t know what they’re taking about! Either that or they’re fully aware of the jaguars but don’t want the public to know. I’m sure it’s only a matter of time before high quality video or a killed cat proves they do exist.

  • @petergambino2129

    @petergambino2129

    4 ай бұрын

    Expert = X, Spurt = Has been, drip under pressure

  • @ericwatler23
    @ericwatler236 ай бұрын

    Agreed on that wall thing it needs to come down!!! The Mexican people, Native Americans, and native Black people belong to America.

  • @MuiGG

    @MuiGG

    5 ай бұрын

    What on earth are you saying? Native black people? lol

  • @ericwatler23

    @ericwatler23

    5 ай бұрын

    @@MuiGG obviously you’re not smart enough to understand so read my comment until you get it

  • @ericwatler23

    @ericwatler23

    5 ай бұрын

    @@MuiGG native Black people, native Black people, native Black people, native Black people, native Black people, native Black people, native Black people, native Black people, native Black people, native Black people, native Black people, native Black people, native Black people, native Black people, native Black people, native Black people, native Black people, native Black people, native Black people, native Black people, native Black people, native Black people, native Black people, native Black people, native Black people, native Black people, native Black people, native Black people NATIVE BLACK PEOPLE. IN AMERICA THATS WHAT I AM SAYING LITTLE GIRL

  • @mcintyretyler89
    @mcintyretyler89 Жыл бұрын

    Wildlife sure doesn't let anything go to waste. The problem is the earthling species.

  • @mcintyretyler89

    @mcintyretyler89

    Жыл бұрын

    We are obviously the aliens to this planet. Look around

  • @mrx0088
    @mrx00889 ай бұрын

    I was expecting a jaguar killing the happy family at the end of the video.

  • @fernandobriseno8164
    @fernandobriseno8164 Жыл бұрын

    It's "illegal" if you get caught

  • @MilkedUp
    @MilkedUp7 ай бұрын

    Makes me which i had millions I would fund it myself

  • @evolutionfarm479
    @evolutionfarm479 Жыл бұрын

    Must be lonely

  • @e.2776
    @e.27764 ай бұрын

    What that guy means when he said, those Mexican population would have to be rock solid safe, and right now they're not??? Why is there so few Jaguar and Grizzly Bears in US?

  • @patrickshea5955
    @patrickshea595510 ай бұрын

    And I always terrible what happened to the jaguars but to be honest it was completely necessary. Like you just playing can't have a functioning cattle farm system like you just playing can't have a functioning cattle farm with predators attacking your livestock and without functional farms you can't have a society

  • @flipmoney519
    @flipmoney519 Жыл бұрын

    I believe that there are females up there females will look for a mate too come now and I’m not even in the field

  • @flipmoney519

    @flipmoney519

    Жыл бұрын

    And females are much harder to spot because she see you before you do

  • @nattamused9074
    @nattamused907411 ай бұрын

    It doesn’t make any sense. Why would there only be two males? Are they brothers? Where’s their mother? I’m no expert, but my guess is that of course there are females out there, they’re just not being caught on camera. And it’s typical that the purpose of a video like this would be to promote the idea that the government needs more money to solve the problem. The government does not need another red cent. If you want to see Jaguar populations thrive, leave them alone.

  • @e.2776
    @e.27764 ай бұрын

    But they wanted to built a wall 🤷 we need to think about animals natural immigration, in Mexico there's no more grizzly and a few buffalos, like in US jaguars

  • @globalunitedanimals
    @globalunitedanimals Жыл бұрын

    Last remaining? They were gone from America completely and recently started coming back. multiple has been seen in America recently.

  • @jimmygarcia-hu4xb

    @jimmygarcia-hu4xb

    Жыл бұрын

    America??????? U mean in the U.S.?????🇺🇸 There's 27 continental American countries, the United States is just one of them,🇺🇸

  • @globalunitedanimals

    @globalunitedanimals

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jimmygarcia-hu4xb lol no one thinks of other countries when they hear the word anerica

  • @jimmygarcia-hu4xb

    @jimmygarcia-hu4xb

    Жыл бұрын

    @@globalunitedanimals Not anymore!!!!! There's 27 continental American countries the United States is just one of them, Mexicans and there reservation brothers and sisters, are the real, and only north americans!, The rest of you are immigrants!, U.S. citizens!!!!!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇸

  • @jimmygarcia-hu4xb

    @jimmygarcia-hu4xb

    Жыл бұрын

    @@globalunitedanimals The primary name of the united states',is, the united states'!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸. God bless the U.S.!!!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸. 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇲🇽

  • @globalunitedanimals

    @globalunitedanimals

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jimmygarcia-hu4xb lol why put Canadian flag? That place is a socialist borderline communist country. lol but we are headed that way though.

  • @YayArea510
    @YayArea5106 ай бұрын

    Remove that ridiculous wall

  • @mechcavandy986

    @mechcavandy986

    2 ай бұрын

    That wall won’t keep a jaguar out!

  • @YayArea510

    @YayArea510

    2 ай бұрын

    @@mechcavandy986 I hope it won't USA is the Jaguars home like wolves, mountain lions, bears and wolverines

  • @myopinionsmayoffendyou
    @myopinionsmayoffendyou Жыл бұрын

    No, but you can move them all the way to the border on the Mexican side for the right price 😉

  • @the10thman87
    @the10thman872 жыл бұрын

    As your colleges are so fond of harping about. Humans come from nature. Humans are nature. You cannot have it both ways. Whining about human behavior is hypocritical.

  • @RRW359

    @RRW359

    Жыл бұрын

    Part of Human behavior is being social and listening to the opinions of other Humans.

  • @mechcavandy986
    @mechcavandy9862 ай бұрын

    Let’s hope this isn’t the “last.” I’m sure there’s a few more. Don’t think that border wall can keep them out! Don’t blame Trump. 🙄

  • @fernandobriseno8164
    @fernandobriseno8164 Жыл бұрын

    Go talk to PETA, they'll get it done.