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Jaguars on the Ranch: Duston Larsen, San Miguelito Jaguar Conservation Ranch

Jaguars on the Ranch: Duston Larsen, San Miguelito Jaguar Conservation Ranch

FromCats of the Wild


Jaguars on the Ranch: Duston Larsen, San Miguelito Jaguar Conservation Ranch

FromCats of the Wild

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Length:
20 minutes
Released:
Nov 4, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Cattle and soy production are big business in Bolivia, and it's quickly reducing habitat for some incredible wildlife such as the jaguar, puma and ocelot. It's not easy though, because in Bolivia you also just can't buy land for the purposes of conservation - the land has to be productive and have an economic function.
So this wildlife now needs to co-exist with agriculture and what often happens is that predators, like the jaguar, predate on livestock such as cattle and then the jaguars are killed in retaliation as farmers seek to protect their herds. It's a problem that exists all over the world but in Bolivia, there's one cattle ranch, San Miguelito that's doing things a little bit differently.
Owner Duston Larsen for almost twenty years has been working with conservation organisations such as WCS and Panthera to study and protect the wildlife on their mostly-natural ranch and is the only model ranch in Bolivia for Panthera in exploring ways to mitigate conflict between predators, livestock and farmers.
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Jaguar Conservation Ranch
Panthera
Released:
Nov 4, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

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Lions, tigers and leopards are just some of the 40 species of wild cat around the world that are under threat. Join me, as we travel to every corner of the globe to hear the incredible stories from the people and communities working to study and protect all species of wild cat. Wild cat conservation is more than just cats - by protecting cats, we save other species in their ecosystems, we help local communities in their habitats and we conserve huge swathes of precious land across the planet. Cats of the Wild is an original, not-for-profit podcast by Andy Varvel.