The jaguar was only a day or two away from giving birth to her cub. But as she crossed the busy highway that hugs Mexico’s Caribbean coast, she was struck by a car. The collision killed her and her cub, two more deaths in a year that is likely to be the most lethal ever for jaguars along the roads of Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula. The breakneck expansion of coastal tourism from Cancún to Tulum, a 130-kilometer (80-mile) ribbon of resorts marketed as the Riviera Maya, is a danger to jaguars and other wildlife who roam from the jungle to the sea. One federal highway, 307, accounts for the vast majority of animal collisions in the region. Conservationists say the solution is simple: crossings that would allow wildlife to travel over or under the highway as they move back and forth between the jungle on the western side and... [Log in to read more]