Jaguar released in Argentina to help endangered species

[Judi Lynn]

By AFP
Published December 31, 2021



Handout picture released by Rewilding Argentina Foundation showing a five-year-old jaguar named Jatobazinho after
he was released back into the wild at Ibera National Park, in Corrientes, on December 31, 2021 -
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Liliana SAMUEL

A jaguar named Jatobazinho was released into a national park in Argentina Friday as part of a program to boost the numbers of this endangered species.

This was the eighth jaguar freed this year into Ibera National Park but the first adult male, said the environmental group Rewilding Argentina, which is behind the project.

Jatobazinho weighs about 90 kilos (200 pounds) and has brown fur peppered with black spots.

He first appeared at a rural school in 2018 in Brazil, looking skinny and weak after crossing a river from Paraguay.

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