Jaguar (Panthera onca)

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1. Story
2. The largest cat in the Americas and the apex terrestrial predator of the basin, notable among big cats for killing by biting through the skull rather than the throat - a technique that follows from an unusually powerful bite for its size. For this Journey it is a measure rather than a subject: jaguars need very large, connected home ranges, so their persistence indexes forest continuity rather than forest area. A landscape can retain most of its tree cover and lose its jaguars if roads, pasture and rivers of clearance cut it into pieces smaller than a viable territory. Its historical range has contracted substantially across the Americas, and the Amazon now holds the largest remaining contiguous population - which makes the basin the species' stronghold and also concentrates its risk in one place. It is listed by the IUCN as Near Threatened with a declining population trend.
3. Knowledge
4. Amazon Basin
5. Jaguar (Panthera onca)
6. Amazon Deforestation
7. Connections
8. Amazon Basin
9. Amazon Deforestation
10. Amazon River
11. Manaus
12. Moisture Recycling
13. Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO)
14. Brazil Nut Tree (Bertholletia excelsa)
15. Jaguar (Panthera onca)
16. Forest Degradation
17. Arc of Deforestation (Arco do Desmatamento)
18. BR-319 (Manaus-Porto Velho Highway)
19. The 2005 Amazon Drought
20. A drought in the southwestern basin reverses the carbon sink
21. A second severe drought follows within five years
22. Aircraft profiles show the eastern Amazon emitting more carbon than it absorbs
23. The UN climate conference convenes at the mouth of the Amazon
24. Jaguar (Panthera onca)
25. Indigenous Peoples and Demarcated Territories of the Amazon
26. BR-163 (Cuiaba-Santarem Highway)
27. Moisture Recycling
28. The Amazon Dieback Threshold
29. Forest Degradation
30. The Southeastern Amazon as a Carbon Source
31. Satellite Deforestation Monitoring
32. PPCDAm (Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Legal Amazon)
33. Amazon Soy Moratorium
34. Construction of the Trans-Amazonian Highway begins
35. BR-163 opens between Cuiaba and Santarem
36. INPE begins the annual PRODES deforestation series
37. Clearance reaches the highest annual figure in the record
38. The Amazon Soy Moratorium is signed
39. Annual clearance reaches its lowest recorded level
40. Clearance reaches its highest level since the mid-2000s
41. Clearance falls to its lowest level in roughly a decade
42. The UN climate conference convenes at the mouth of the Amazon
43. Evidence
44. Supports the Near Threatened listing and declining population trend for the jaguar. V55 verification basis: the Red List was not retrievable in this session; the category is stated from the producing model's knowledge and the assessment year could not be confirmed.