A female jaguar released in 2021 in Ibera National Park (Argentina) recently gave birth to two wild-born cubs.

This is a first for seventy years in this wetland, said Thursday an animal rights organization.

“The reproduction of jaguars in the wild and the birth of a new generation in the wild are an excellent signal for the project that seeks to stop the extinction of this species […] in the Esteros de Ibera”, s' is congratulated the Fundación Rewilding Argentina.

The Esteros de Ibera is a wetland of about 12,000 km² in the province of Corrientes.

We're announcing a milestone in reverting the extinction crisis - in Argentina's #Iberá wetlands, the first #jaguar cubs have been born in the wild, offspring of jaguars released by @RewildingArg in the past year!

The jaguars' return will help restore ecosystem function to Iberá.

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— Tompkins Conservation Global (@TompkinsRewild) July 21, 2022


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A long reintroduction program

In recent weeks, the technical team had detected that the female jaguar remained in the same place, presumably to take care of newborns.

A camera then confirmed the two births, according to the coordinator of the Park's Jaguar Reintroduction Center (CRY).

The two cubs are the fruit of the union of Arami, born in the CRY, and Jatobazinho, a Brazilian jaguar given to the Argentinian project in 2019 and released at the end of December.

The union was made in the wild.

Jatobazinho was the eighth jaguar released in 2021 by the CRY, after three females and four cubs.

All exhibit typical wild animal behaviors.

“If the two newborns survive, […] the population of Ibera will number ten jaguars in the wild,” said Sebastian Di Martino, director of conservation at the Foundation.

The CRY has been operating since 2012 in the province of Corrientes, where the species had disappeared for seven decades.

There would remain between 200 and 300 jaguars, a "near threatened" species, in Argentina.

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