Mexico’s jaguar population is on the rise according to the preliminary results of Cenjaguar, the Sept. 24 announcement of the results of the country’s third national jaguar census. A number has not yet been put on the estimated size of the jaguar population because work is still being done on the survey, conducted by the National Alliance for Jaguar Conservation, (ANCJ), a respected grouping of wildlife experts. But participants say they expect the figure to exceed the 4,800 jaguars estimated in the second census, which was issued in 2018. That earlier count, in turn, showed an increase from 4,000 in the first survey, which was published in 2010. Remaining work on the current census involves reviewing data from the last four of the 24 sampled sites. The final population estimate is expected to be released in February 2025, along with an updated national jaguar-conservation strategy. The jaguar (Panthera onca...
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E-commerce giant Amazon and a group of other companies have agreed to buy up to 12 million voluntary forest carbon offset credits that will support rainforest conservation in Brazil’s eastern Amazon state of Pará in a deal valued at around US$180 million, Amazon confirmed to EcoAméricas via email. The companies also include German drug and chemical maker Bayer, the Boston Consulting Group, France’s Capgemini consulting group, Swedish clothing retailer H&M, and the philanthropic arm of Walmart. They will make the purchase through the LEAF Coalition, a public-private initiative that sells carbon credits to generate funds for forest protection and requires buyers to commit to emissions cuts. Emergent, the nonprofit that coordinates buyers and sellers in the LEAF Coalition, and which signed the agreement, has also confirmed the deal. The project, LEAF’s first deal in the Amazon region, is being conducted in partnership with the Pará state government...
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The government of Argentine President Javier Milei has eliminated a fund that Congress created in 2018 to help public and private entities comply with a landmark 2007 law requiring them to draft management plans aimed at conserving the country’s native forests. The Oct. 7 executive order drew immediate criticism from Argentina’s Federal Environment Council, a provincial environment ministers’ policy-coordination grouping. The council said the move violates the principle that environmental safeguards must not be weakened once they have been put in place. This “non-regression” concept is enshrined in the Escazú Agreement, the first regional environmental treaty covering Latin America and the Caribbean. Argentina signed and ratified the treaty, which was adopted in 2018 and took effect in 2021. The fund’s elimination, published in the official record without warning, occurred amid extensive public-spending cuts undertaken by the Milei Administration to curb price inflation, a campaign whose austerity steps...
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